Curriculum vitae
since 05/2012
- Associate Professor for Clinical Microbiology and Immunology
Microbiology Institute – Clinical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene University Hospital and Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg - 02/2008
“Umhabilitation” at the Faculty of Biology, JMU Würzburg - 12/2007 – 04/2012
Young Investigator Group leader at the Research Center for Infectious Diseases
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany - 04/2007
Habilitation and conferment of the veniae legendi for Microbiology and Genetics; habilitation treatise on “Determinants of Fruiting Body Formation and Pathogenicity in Aspergillus Species“ - 03/2001 – 11/2007
Scientific assistant and group leader
Institute for Microbiology & Genetics, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics
GAU Göttingen, Germany - 11/2000 - 02/2001
Research visit in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. Rolf A. Prade
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Oklahoma State University, USA
Project entiteled “Transcriptional profiling in Aspergillus nidulans“ - 1996 – 2000
Doctoral thesis (Dr. rer. nat., summa cum laude)
“Biosynthesis of aromatic amino acids in yeast and Aspergillus – mechanisms controlling the flux of chorismate“
with Prof. Dr. G. H. Braus at the Institute of Microbiology & Genetics
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany - 1990 – 1996
Studies of Chemistry
Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen/Nürnberg, Germany
Diploma thesis entitled “Characterisation of a HIS7 promoter-binding protein of the baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae“
Institute of Biochemistry, FAU Erlangen/Nürnberg, Germany
