1986, June 10th, Abitur, Nicolaus-Cusanus-Gymnasium, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
1986 - 1993, Biology, University of Cologne, Germany
1993, June 15th Diplom (~MSc), Experimental Diploma Thesis on 'Analysis of the Mechanism of Somatic Hypermutation of Mouse Immunoglobulin Genes' in the group of Klaus Rajewsky (now in Harvard) at the Institute of Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany,
1994 - 1997, PhD thesis work, Experimental PhD Thesis in the group of Bernd Eikmanns (now in Ulm) at the Institute of Biotechnology 1 (directed by Hermann Sahm), Research Center Juelich, Germany
1997, June 23rd, Dr. rer. nat (~PhD), 'Physiological and NMR-Spectroscopic Analyses of the in vivo Activities of Central Metabolic Pathways in wild-type and recombinant Corynebacterium glutamicum Strains', summa cum laude, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Germany
Experience
1997 - 1999, Postdoc, Research project funded by the German Science Foundation DFG and by UC Berkeley in the group of Sydney Kustu at the University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
1999 - 2005, Research Scientist, Head of the lab Genome-wide expression analysis using DNA microarrays at the Institute of Biotechnology 1, Research Center Juelich, Germany
2004, June 24th, Habilitation, 'Characterization of Global Regulatory Mechanisms in Escherichia coli and Corynebacterium glutamicum using DNA microarrays', Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Germany
2004, July 20th, venia legendi in Microbiology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Germany
2006 - 2009, Professor for Metabolic Engineering, Institute of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Westfalian Wilhelms University Muenster, Germany
2008 - 2009, Vice Dean (Finance), Department of Biology, Westfalian Wilhelms University Muenster, Germany
2011 - 2017, Vice Chair for Research of the CLIB2021 Graduate Cluster, Düsseldorf, Dortmund & Bielefeld
2011 - 2014, Coordinator of the BMBF collaborative research network Genome reduction
2014 - 2018, Member of the Senate of Bielefeld University
2014 - 2016, Vice Dean, Department of Biology, Bielefeld University
2016 - 2018, Dean of the Department of Biology, Bielefeld University
2018-2022 Coordinator of the ERDF-NRW funded CLIB-Competence Centre Biotechnology (CKB)
2019, May 2nd, Distinguished Scientist Award of the International Bioprocessing Association - An International Forum on Industrial Bioprocesses
2019, July 5th, Schwarzbich Inventor Award together with Dr. Nadja Henke and Dr. Petra Peters-Wendisch