Curriculum Vitae

Degrees
2009	Habilitation, Neurobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.
1995-1999	Dr. rer. nat., Biology, Cell Biology Program, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany.
1989-1995	B.Sc., Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University College London, UK.
1989-1995	Degree, Biochemistry, FU Berlin, Germany (Prof. Dr. C. G. Dotti).

Major previous appointments
since 2011	Senior research group leader on Full Professor level (W3), DZNE, Bonn.
since 2011	W3-Professor at the University of Bonn, Germany.
2003-2011	Independent junior research group leader on associate Professor level (C3), Max-Planck-Institute for Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany.
2000-2002	Postdoc research associate, UCSF & Stanford University-HHMI, US (Prof. Dr. M. Tessier-Lavigne).
1995-1999	PhD-student, EMBL, Heidelberg.

Activities in the Scientific Community / Professional Memberships
2015-today	Member of the Editorial Board for Current Biology.
2019-2023	Member of the RIKEN Brain Science Advisory Council Riken, Japan.
2016-2022	Member IRP Scientific Committee, Zurich, Switzerland.
2016-2019	Member of the ZMNH Scientific Committee, Hamburg, Germany.
2017-2019	Organizer of the EMBO Meeting “Cell Biology of the Neuron: Polarity, Plasticity and Regeneration”, Crete, Greece.
2018	Organizer of the Cold Spring Harbor Asia Meeting "Assembly of Neuronal Circuits", Awaji, Japan.
2018	Director of the “Spinal Cord Injury Course - NSAS”, San Servolo, Venice, Italy.
2017	Organizer of the ASCB Doorstep Meeting "Cell Biology of Degeneration and Repair in the Nervous System", Philadelphia, USA.

Honors and Awards
2023	Remedios Caro Almela Prize
2021	Carl Zeiss Prize
2018	Roger de Spoelberch Prize
2016	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize (the highest prize for Science in Germany)
2014	Elected member German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)
2013	Elected member of EMBO

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