Curriculum vitae - Universität Heidelberg

Chronology of employment
2007 September-to date
Junior Group Leader of “Screening of Cellular Networks” at the
VIROQUANT/BIOQUANT, Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg.
2007 January-August
Project officer in the "Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit", in the
laboratory of Dr. R. Pepperkok, European Molecular Biology
Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany. FP6-EU funded project:
Novel post-genomic cell-based screens for drug targeting in membrane
protein disorders.
2001-2006
Postdoctoral fellow in the "Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit", in the
laboratory of Dr. R. Pepperkok, European Molecular Biology
Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany. NGFN funded projects: 1)
Establishment of an automated microscopy-based functional analysis
platform for the human proteome; 2) Novel molecular mechanisms
acting in secretory membrane trafficking.
1998-2001 Doctoral work at the Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-
August University Göttingen under the supervision of Prof. Dr. H-J.
Fritz. Project: Molecular mechanisms of DNA repair at high
temperatures: Identification and characterisation of thermostable uracil
glycosylases from archaeon Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum
and bacterium Thermus thermophilus (Magna Cum Laude).
1997-1998 Visiting scientist in the "Biochemical Instrumentation Program", in the
laboratory of Prof. W. Ansorge, European Molecular Biology
Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany. Project: Construction of
novel recombinant thermostable DNA polymerases for PCR and
automated DNA sequencing”.