Education

2010 Adjunct professor at Ludwig Maximilians-University Munich2006 Postdoctoral lecture qualification (“Habilitation”) and conferral of associate professorship (“Priv.-Doz.”) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University München, „Concepts of genomic association studies to decipher complex diseases“

1995 Doctor in biology by thesis „O-Glycosilation in Saccharomyces cerevisae“, Department of Cell Biology, University of Regensburg

1992 – 1995 PhD in Cell Biology, O-Glycosilation in yeast, University of Regensburg1986 – 1991 Study of biology, University of Regensburg

Professional Experience

Since 01/2012 CEO and scientific head of Hannover Unified Biobank (HUB), Hannover Medical School

01/2011 – 12/2011 Head of Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg,

Since 2009 Head of Biomaterials group of the German National Cohort (200 000 participants)

2001 – 2010 Group leader of working group “Epidemiology-Biobanking-Genomics” in the Institute of Epidemiology Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg,

1998 – 2001 PostDoc, Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg

1996 – 1998 PostDoc, Institute of Mammalian Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg

1995 – 1996 PostDoc, Department of Cell Biology, University of Regensburg Teaching experience

Since 2001 Organisation of the MBA programme „Molecular and genetic epidemiology“ at Ludwig-Maximilians-University München, Pettenkofer School of Public Health, Different lectures in this programme

Since 2003 Molecular Epidemiology at the University of Mainz2005 – 2009 Molecular Epidemiology at the Technical University of Munich.