Curriculum Vitae
Born 1966 in Halle/Saale. Study of biochemistry (1985), doctorate with Tom A. Rapoport, Berlin-Buch, postdoc with R. A. Laskey, Cambridge/UK (1993-1995), research group leader and Professor of Molecular Biology at the ZMBH, Heidelberg, Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (2005-2021), since 2022 Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences. Numerous awards and prizes, among others the Karl Lohmann Prize of the German Society for Biological Chemistry (1993), the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize (1997), the EMBO Gold Medal (1997) and the Alfried Krupp Förderpreis (2001).