2020-2021: President of German Genetics Society
2019-2021: Senator of the TU Braunschweig
2017-2019: Dean of the Life Science Faculty, TU Braunschweig
since 2013: Full Professor of Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, Zoological Institute, TU Braunschweig
2010-2013: Professor of Cell Biology and Cell Physiology, Zoological Institute, TU Braunschweig
2008-2010: Malik MZSG Master of Management, Malik Management Zentrum St. Gallen
2003-2010: Independent Groupleader of Zebrafish Neuroimaging Group, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Institute of Developmental Genetics
1998-2003: Postdoctoral Scholar (Laboratory of Prof. Dr. Scott E. Fraser), California Institute of Technology, Biological Imaging Center, Pasadena, USA
1995-1998: PhD Student (Laboratory of Prof. Dr. Jochen Wittbrodt), Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen
1989-1994: Studies in Chemistry, Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg and Physiological Chemistry