Academic responsibilities

2022 – ongoing                Dean of the Faculty of Biosciences, Heidelberg University

2019 – ongoing                elected member of the senate of Heidelberg University

2018 - 2022                        Deputy Director, Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University

2013 – ongoing                Director of Metabolomics Core Technology Platform, Heidelberg

2010 - 2012                        Deputy Director, Centre for Organismal Studies Heidelberg

2007 - 2010                        Acting Director, Heidelberg Institute for Plant Sciences

2005 – 2007                       Dean of the Faculty of Biosciences, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

 

Academic career

2003 – ongoing                Full Professor (C4), Director Dept. IV ´Molecular Biology of Plants´, Centre for Organismal Studies Heidelberg

1998 - 2003                        Independent group leader, Leibniz-Institute for Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research Gatersleben, Germany

1998                                      Habilitation und venia legendi for Botany, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

1993 - 1998                        Group leader, Dept. Plant Physiology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

1990 - 1993                        Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA

1985 - 1989                        PhD Biology (Mentor Prof. Dr. L. Bergmann), University of Cologne, Germany

1978 - 1985                        Study of Biology (Botany, Biochemistry, Ecology), Technical University Darmstadt, Germany

 

Academic activities

2010 - 2018                        Speaker Plant Biotechnology Group of German Soc. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM)

2010-2013 and 2023 ongoing, Board of directors HBIGS Excellence Graduate School

2004 - 2010                        Reviewer PhD programs of DAAD

2011 - 2018                        Associate Editor of Biological Chemistry

2013 - 2020                        Co-Editor of Plant Cell Physiology

2016 - 2024                        Elected member of the national Plant Science Panel, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft