Academic Education

1990-1996

Medical study at Humboldt University (Charité) of Berlin

Scientific Degrees

2004	Habilitation in Neuropathology, Georg-August-University Göttingen
1997	Dissertation in Medicine, Humboldt-University, Medical Hospital (Charité) Berlin

Professional Experience

Since 2008	Director and Chair, Institute of Neuropathology, University Medical Center Freiburg
2004	Lecturer (“Habilitation”) and consultant (“Oberarzt”) in Neuropathology
2002-2008	Group leader at the Institute of Neuropathology, University of Göttingen
2001-2002	Senior research postdoc at the Institute of Neuropathology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
1999-2000	Postdoctoral fellow (DFG fellowship) at the Institute of Neuropathology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
1997-1998	Postdoc position at Max-Delbrück-Center (MDC) Berlin, Cellular Neurosciences

Others (Editorial work, member of scientific councils, advisory boards, awards)

~	Reviewer (Journals, ad hoc): Immunity, Nature, Nat Med, Nat Immunol, Nat Neurosci, Science a.o.
2023	Klaus Faber Foundation Project Prize
2021	Novo Nordisk Prize
2021	Member of the German Academy of Science, Leopoldina
2020	Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Prize
Since 2019	Advisory board member, Science Immunology
Since 2018	Highly Cited Researcher, Web of Science, Clarivate analytics
2018	Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine
Since 2017	Speaker CRC/TRR 167 NeuroMac
2015	Reinhart Kosellek Research Project
2012-2019	Anually, Writer Prize (Cluster of Excellence BIOSS)
2014	Sobek Prize (Sobek Foundation)
2014	Writer Prize (Cluster of Excellence BIOSS)
2010-2015	Co-Speaker Research Unit (FOR) 1336
Since 2008	Editorial board: GLIA
2007	Hans Georg Queckenstedt Prize (DMSG)
2006	Young Investigator Award, (International Cytokine Society, Vienna)
2005	Pfizer Research Prize for Medicine of the University of Freibur
2004	H.G. Creutzfeldt Science Prize