Born 1959 in Thuine/Lingen, Study of physics and mathematic in Goettingen;  PhD at Yale University (1988), Post-doctoral fellow in Odense, Denmark,  group leader at European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL,1992-97), Full Professor at the University of Southern Denmark (1998-2005), Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (since 2005), Director of the Research Department “Proteomics” at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen (since 2007).