Leipzig University 
Leipzig, Germany
PhD in Biochemistry awarded on November, 06, 1995
Summa cum laude

Leipzig University                                                
Leipzig, Germany
Diploma in Chemistry awarded on July, 12, 1991
Magna cum laude

Technical University of Leuna-Merseburg
Merseburg, Germany
Undergraduate study from September, 1986 to February, 1988

Free University Berlin,
University Professor, C3
Organic Chemistry / Natural Product Chemistry, since 5 / 2004    

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Assistant Professor (offer declined), 2 / 2004
         
Leipzig University
Assistant Professor, 2000 – 2004

The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
Research Associate 10 / 02 – 3 / 03, 2 / 02 – 3 / 02
Collaboration with Prof. Carlos F. Barbas, III, 7 / 01 – 2 / 02      

The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
Research Associate – Post-Doctoral Fellow
Supervisor:  Prof. Carlos F. Barbas, III, 3 / 00 – 9 / 00      

The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Supervisor:  Prof. M. Reza Ghadiri, 3 / 99 – 3 / 00      

 Leipzig University
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Supervisor:  Prof. K. Burger, 1995 – 1999       

Leipzig University
Graduate Research Fellow
Thesis Supervisor: Prof. H.-D. Jakubke, 1991 – 1995

Technical University Munich
Research stay
Supervisor: Prof. K. Burger, 7 / 93 – 7 / 94      

Leipzig University
Diploma Thesis
Thesis Supervisor: Prof. K. Schultze, 1990 - 1991

Bell Flavors and Fragrances, Miltitz, Germany
Industrial training
3 / 90 – 6 / 90     

Georg Thieme publisher’s award (2002)

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Research Fellowship (4 / 99 – 9 /00)

Lessing medal in Gold (1986)

DFG – Four-Year Grant (2009-2012); PI, DFG-Graduate School “Fluorine as key element” Subprojects D2 and D3

DFG – Four-Year Grant (2008-2011); PI, DFG-Sonderforschungsbereich 765 "Multivalency as organisational and functional principle", Subproject A5

DFG  - Three-Year Grant (2006-2009); PI
Topic: “Importance of electrostatic interactions and metal ion complexation for peptide and protein folding”

Fonds der Chemischen Industrie  - Two-Year Fellowship (2006-2008); PI
Topic: “Organization of Nanoparticles by interaction with coiled coil peptides”

DFG  - Three-Year Grant (2006-2009); PI
Topic: “HIV entry inhibitors” (Follow-up project)

DFG  - Three-Year Grant (2005-2008); DFG-Research Group „Formation and Stability of b-sheets“, Subproject 10C
Topic: "Structural and kinetic characterization of intermediates of misfolding and aggregation of proteins"; PI

DFG  - Three-Year Grant (2005-2008); Graduiertenkolleg 788 “Hydrogen bonds and hydrogen transfer“
Topic: "Studies of the influence of fluoralkyl substituents on the formation of intermolecular hydrogen bonds in peptides”; PI

DFG  - Two-Year Grant (2002-2004); PI
Topic: “HIV entry inhibitors”

Volkswagen Foundation - Two-Year Grant (2002-2004); PI
Topic: “A bi-directional peptide switch: a-helical coiled coil interactions versus b-sheet formation”

Fonds der Chemischen Industrie Grant (2002); PI

Max-Bergmann-Kreis e.V. (For the Advancement of Peptide Chemistry Research)

German Chemical Society, Division Biochemistry

American Chemical Society

Since 2009: Speaker of the Initiative “Graduate School of Excellence - SUPRAMOL” at Freie Universität Berlin; preproposal submitted to DFG August 2010

Organizer of the 10th German Peptide Symposium, March, 7-10, 2011, Freie Universität and Technische Univerität Berlin, Germany

Since 2009: Speaker of the Interdisciplinary Initiative “Centre for Supramolecular Interactions” at Freie Universität Berlin

Since 2009: Member of the Scientific Coordinator Team of the DFG-Graduate School “Fluorine as key element” at Freie Universität Berlin

Since 2009: Member of the “Expert/inn/enbeirat Gleichstellung“, Freie Universität Berlin

2008-2009: ERASMUS coordinator for the Institute of Chemistry, Freie Universität Berlin

WS 2008/2009: Co-organizer of the University Lecture Series “Offener Hörsaal”, Topic: “Erneuerbare Energien - Wissenschaft, Vermittlung, Verantwortung” at Freie Universität Berlin

2007-2010: Member of the Executive committee of the Graduate School „Biomedical Sciences“, Freie Universität Berlin

Since 2006: Member of the “Zentraler Frauenrat”, Freie Universität Berlin

Since 2006: Member of the “Akademischer Senat”, Freie Universität Berlin

Head of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the 2nd Sino-German Frontiers of Chemistry Symposium, Bejing, China, October 2008

Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee for the 1st Sino-German Frontiers of Chemistry Symposium, Kloster Seon, Germany, July 2006

Evaluator for in depth study courses for the ZevA Hannover, 2005

Expert evaluator in the chemistry and life science panel for the International Marie-Curie Fellowship evaluation, Brussels, May, 2004

Member of the Organizing Committee of the 4th German Peptide Symposium, March, 21-24, 1999, University Leipzig, Germany

Coorganizer of the Workshop “Peptide modification by non-natural amino acids”, Leipzig / Germany, September, 29-30, 1997 (http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~inno/innokoll/peptiden.htm)

Bayer Schering Pharma (Berlin)

Fluorotronics (La Mesa, CA, U.S.A.)