Postdoc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Picower Center for Learning and Memory, Cambridge, USA
2003-2006
Postdoc, Harvard Medical School, Pathology Dep. Boston, USA
2002-2003
Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany
Major previous appointments
since 2015
Director, Dept. Systems Medicine and Epigenetics in Neurodegenerative Diseases, German Center for Neurodegenerative diseases (DZNE)
since 2011
Speaker of the DZNE, Göttingen site (Helmholtz Society)
Since 2011
W3 Professor; Epigenetic mechanisms in brain diseases. Dep. of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Göttingen
2011
W3 Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich (DECLINED)
2007-2011
Independent Group Leader. European Neuroscience Institute, Göttingen
Activities in the Scientific Community / Professional Memberships
since 2017
Speaker, DFG priority programme “non-coding RNAs in nervous system development, plasticity & disease”
since 2016
Treasurer of the European Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society
since 2013
Member of SAB for Rodin Therapeutics, Boston USA
Honors and Awards
2015
ERC Consolidator Grant; European Research Council
2009
Alzheimer Research Award, Hans and Ilse Breuer Foundation
2008
Heinz Maier Leibnitz Award; Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft
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