Diploma and Ph.D., University of Kaiserslautern, Zoology, until 1994
Yale University, Med. Sch., Dept. of Neurosurgery, 1994 -1997
University of Saarland Homburg, Physiology, 1997 - 1999
TU Munich, Physiology, 1999 - 2000
LMU Munich, Physiology, 2000 - 2005
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Institute for Neurobiology, 2005 - present