Main Research Areas
Cardioprotection - protection of heart muscle cells and coronary arterys/coronary microcirculation
The blood as a place of education and carrier of vasomotor mediators
since 2024 |
Adjunct Profesor at the Medical University of Vienna / Austria |
since 2020 |
W2 - Professorship for Cardioprotection at the Institute of Pathophysiology, University Hospital Essen |
since 2011 up today |
Deputy Director, Institute of Pathophysiology, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen |
since 2008 |
Research Assistant; Institute of Pathophysiology, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen (Prof. Dr.Dr. h.c. G. Heusch) |
2005 |
Research Assistant; CBT (CardioBioTech Group), University Hospital Aachen, RWTH Aachen University (Prof. Dr. M. Kelm) |
2004 |
Research stay; National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Washington / USA (Prof. Dr. A. Schechter / Prof. Dr. M. Gladwin) |
2004 |
Research Assistant; Laboratory of Cardiology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf (Prof. Dr. M. Kelm) |
1999 |
Doctoral candidate; Laboratory for Cardiology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (Prof. Dr. M. Kelm, Prof. Dr. G. Schaub) |
1999 |
Freelance research assistant; Institute for Special Zoology, Ruhr-University Bochum (Prof. Dr. G. Schaub) |
2010 |
Dr. Deichmann Prize for young researchers -Basic Research-; Essen Live, Essen |
2007 |
W. H. Hauss Prize 2007; award for scientific work in the field of arteriosclerosis research, annual conference of the Society for Arteriosclerosis Research, Blaubeuren |
2006 |
Young Investigator Award 2006; Cell-cell interactions in the cardiological system, 22nd Cardiologists-Physiologists Workshop, Würzburg |
2006 |
G. Schettler- Award for the best lecture; annual meeting of the Society for Arteriosclerosis Research, Blaubeuren |
2005 |
Science Award; Role of Nitrite in Physiology, Pathophysiology and Therapeutics Meeting; NIH, Washington / USA |
2004 |
Young Investigator Cardiovascular Award; CardioVision, Academy of Sciences NRW, Düsseldorf |
German Society of Cardiology - 2016 to 2018 Spokesperson of Working Group 27 (Coronary Flow and Myocardial Perfusion) |
German Physiological Society |
Society for Arteriosclerosis Research |
International Society for Heart Research |
American Physiological Society |
Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, Track “SCIENTIFIC EXCELLENCE” (FESC) |
Fellow of the American Physiological Society, Cardiovascular Section (FCVS) |
Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC) |