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Professional career

2015, 2016, 2018Visiting Professor at Viçosa University, Brazil (Feb./March, resp.)
2012-2013Visiting Professor at University of Western Australia, Perth (Oct. 2012-March 2013)
2012Visiting Professor at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (March-April 2012)
since 2010W3-Professor of ‘Plant Proteomics’, Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH)
2008-2010W2-Professor of ‘Plant Proteomics’, LUH 
2008, 2008, 2010Appointments to professorships at Bordeaux University, Leibniz Universität Hannover and Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
2002-2007Head of the 'Plant Proteomics' group at LUH
2001-2002Substitute of the Botany chair at Karlsruhe University
1996-2001 Lecturer, Department of Horticulture, LUH 
1993-1996 Postdoc, Institut für Genbiologische Forschung GmbH, Berlin
1990-1993 Research fellow, Institut für Genbiologische Forschung GmbH, Berlin

Academic career and education

1997Habilitation in Molecular Biology, Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH)
1993PhD (Dr. rer. nat) at the Freie Universität Berlin
1990Diplom in Biology at the Freie Universität Berlin
1983-1990Studies of Physics and Biology at the Technische Universität Berlin (1983-1984), Freie Universität Berlin (1984-1988) and the Duke University, North Carolina / US (1988-1989)

 

Other Professional Activities (selection)

2021-23Speakter of the Senate, LUH
2015-25Member of the Senate, LUH
2013-2019Member of the Managing Board of the DFG Graduiertenkolleg ‘Signaling at the Plant Soil Interface’ (GRK1798)
2011-2022Co-organizer of the Proteomic Forum (Berlin/Potsdam/Leipzig, every two years)
2011-2013President of the ‘Deutsche Gesellschaft für Proteomforschung’ (DGPF)
2011Organizer of the International Conference for Plant Mitochondrial Biology (ICPMB)
2010-2015Director of the Institute of Plant Genetics
2009-2014Speaker of the Massenspektrometrie-Forum Hannover
2009-2022Member of the Executive board of the DGPF
since 2008Speaker of the Research Initiative ‘Angewandte Pflanzenbiotechnologie’ 
since 2007 Editorial Board of the Journal of Proteomics
since 2006Member of the ‘Proteomics’ Subcommittee of the Multinational Arabidopsis Steering Committee (MASC)

 

Awards and scholarships

2010DFG Heisenberg Professorship (W3) (2010-12)
2008DFG Heisenberg Professorship (W2) (2008-10)
1988Fulbright scholarship for Duke University, North Carolina, US (1988-89)
1986Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (1986-89)

Keywords

  • Plant Proteomics, Mass Specrometry, Mitochondria, Blue Native polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (BN-PAGE), Arabidiopsis thaliana, Complexome, Oxidative Phosphorylation (OXPHOS)