Curriculum Vitae
Born 1953 in Toronto/Canada. Studies in biology in Heidelberg, doctorate 1985, German Habilitation in molecular biology Ruprecht Karl University Heidelberg (1994), head of a research group at EMBL Heidelberg (1991-1999), Full Professor of Reproduction Physiology at the School of Veterinary Medicine and Director of the Center of Animal Transgenesis and Germ Cell Research at the University of Pennsylvania/USA (1999-2004), Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry, University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Animal Biology, Philadelphia/USA (since 2004), Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine (since 2003), Director at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine (2003-2021), Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine (since 2021), Robert-Koch-Preis (2008).