| since 2025 | Speaker of the EFRE initiative "Value Plant" |
| since 2024 | Member of the board of directors, MLU Biocenter |
| since 2020 | W3 Professor of Plant Biochemistry, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg |
| since 2017 | Speaker of the DFG Research Training Group RTG 2498 (renewed since 2022) |
| 2017-2020 | Speaker of the EFRE initiative "Molecular Biosciences as a motor of a knowledge-based economy" |
| since 2014 | Speaker of the MLU Research Focus Molecular Biosciences |
| since 2010 | W2 Professor of Cellular Biochemistry, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg |
| 2004 - 2010 | Emmy-Noether group leader, University of Göttingen, Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences (GZMB)/Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences, Department of Plant Biochemistry (Prof. Ivo Feussner) |
| 2001 - 2004 | Post-Doc, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA (with Dr. John Shanklin) |
| 2000 - 2001 | Post-Doc, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA (with Prof. Eric Davies) |
| 1997 - 2000 | PhD, Free University of Berlin and North Carolina State University (with Prof. Claus Schnarrenberger/Prof. Wendy F. Boss) |
| 1996 | DAAD PhD scholarship |
| 1996 | Diploma (Microbiology, Immunology, Plant Physiology) |
| 1991 - 1996 | Studies of Biology, Free University of Berlin |
Professional Memberships
German Botanical Society (DBG)
American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)
European Federation for Lipid Research and Technology (EuroFed Lipid)
Reviewer for
Science, Nature, Cell, Nature Communications, Nature Plant, EMBO J, PNAS, The Plant Cell, eLife, Trends in Plant Science, Cell Research, Plant Physiology, The Plant Journal, Journal of Biological Chemistry, New Phytologist, Mechanisms of Development, Phytochemistry, Crop Science, Biochimie, Journal of Plant Physiology, and others
German Research Foundation (DFG), Germany; National Science Foundation USA (NSF), USA; US Department of Agriculture (USDA), USA; L'Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR); France, The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), The Netherlands; Czech Science Foundation (GA CR), Czech Republic; Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Israel; Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund (BARD), USA/Israel; National Research Foundation (NRF), Singapore; Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A-STaR), Singapore
