| October 1979 - September 1985 |
Study of biochemistry (Diplom) at the universities of Tübingen and Munich |
| October 1985 - October 1986 |
Diploma thesis on viroids in the group of Prof. Dr. H.L. Sänger at the Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried, Munich |
| November 1986 - September 1989 |
PhD thesis on viroids in the group of Prof. Dr. H.L. Sänger at the Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried, Munich |
| October 1989 - July 1995 |
Research Fellow in the group of Prof. Dr. B. Hohn at Friedrich Miescher-Institut, Basel, Switzerland Research area: Homologous DNA recombination in plants |
| August 1995 - August 2002 |
Leader of the group "DNA recombination" at the Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung (IPK) Gatersleben, Germany Research area: DNA recombination in plants |
| June 2000 | Habilitation at the Martin-Luther University, Halle |
| since September 2002 |
Professor (chair Botany II) at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) |
| October 2004 - September 2005 | Vice Dean of Biology |
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October 2005 - |
Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Biosciences |
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September 2007 |
Vice Dean of Research |
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April 2008 |
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| since 2011 | ERC Advanced Grant |
