| 2019 - present | Professor for Neurobiology (W3) at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz |
| 2015 - 2018 | Group leader at the European Neuroscience Institute (ENI) Göttingen |
| 2009 - 2014 | Postdoc, Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University, USA, with Dr. Thomas Clandinin |
| 2005 - 2009 | PhD, Institute for Neurobiologiy, University of Münster, Germany, with Dr. Christian Klämbt |
| 2001 - 2005 | Biology (Dipl.), University of Munster/Wetsphalia, Germany |
Honors and Awards
| 2018 | Fellow of the Gutenberg Research College Mainz |
| 2017 | Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) |
| 2017 | Science Award of the land Lower Saxony, Germany |
| 2016 | ERC Starting grant „Microcircuit in the fly visual system" |
| 2015 | Schilling Research Award of the German Neuroscience Society |
| 2015 | Bernhard Katz Lecture Award |
| 2014 | Emmy Noether Fellowship of the DFG |
| 2011 - 2013 | Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 2011 | PhD Award of the German Society for Developmental Biology |
| 2010 | Stanford Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 2006 - 2008 | PhD Fellowship, Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds |