Since April 1, 2022
Vice-Rector for Research and Early-Career Researchers at the University of Duisburg-Essen

2014-2024
Spokesperson of the GRK 1949 research training group ‘Immune Response in Infectious Diseases: Regulation between Innate and Adaptive Immunity’ (DFG)

Since 2012
Professor (W3) for Immunology of Infection at the University of Duisburg-Essen

2008–2012
Junior professor for Mucosal Immunity at the University of Duisburg-Essen

2006
Fellow in the Division of Molecular Immunology at the National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK

2004–2008
Academic staff member within the Mucosal Immunity working group at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig

2000–2004
Doctoral qualification conferring the title ‘Dr. rer. nat.’ at the Technische Universität Braunschweig/Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Mucosal Immunity working group

1995–2000
Studies in Biology at the Technische Universität Braunschweig

2018
Guest professorship at the University of Cordoba, Argentina

2017
‘Essen forscht und heilt’ (research and healing in Essen) research award from the City of Essen

2010
Grant from the Novartis-Stiftung für therapeutische Forschung (foundation for therapeutic research)

2009-2011
Global Young Faculty, promotion programme for promising early career researchers from the Stiftung Mercator and the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen

2008
Postdoctoral Award for Immunology from the Robert Koch Foundation

2008
‘Supervisor of the Year’ award from the DO IT doctoral researchers’ initiative of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig

• Advisory member of the Commission for Research, Career Development and Science Transfer of the University of Duisburg-Essen
• Member of the Directorate of the Graduate Center Plus (GC Plus) at the University of Duisburg-Essen
• Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Research Data Services at the University of Duisburg-Essen
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the Sino-German Virtual Institute for Viral Immunology at the University of Duisburg-Essen
• Speaker of the ‘Immunology and Infectious Diseases’ focus area of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Duisburg-Essen
• Member of the Academic Advisory Board and the Steering Committee of the Westdeutsches Zentrum für Infektiologie (West German centre for infectious diseases) at the Essen University Hospital
• Member of the Managing Board of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mukosale Immunologie und Mikrobiom (German society for mucosal immunology and the microbiome)
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mülheim an der Ruhr
• Representative of the University of Duisburg-Essen on the Administrative Board of IUTA
• Member of the ZBT Supervisory Board
• Member of the Central Commission for Biological Safety (ZKBS). Appointed by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture ( BMEL )