ACADEMIC EDUCATION

• 1992 - 1994 University courses in Chemical Engineering and Biology, Dortmund and Münster
• 1994 - 2000 Medical School, University of Frankfurt/M
• 2002 Full approval as physician

SCIENTIFIC DEGREES

• Promotion | Medicine (Virology), University of Frankfurt, 2003, Prof. Dr. med. W. Kurt Roth

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

• 2000 - 2002 Physician, Department of Virology, Bernhard Nocht Institute Hamburg
• 2002 - 2005 Laboratory head, Molecular Diagnostics, Bernhard Nocht Institute
• 2005 - 2007 Head, Clinical Virology Unit, Bernhard Nocht Institute
• 2007 - 2017 Full Professor of Medicine, University of Bonn
• Since 2017 Full Professor of Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

AWARDS

• 2005 Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande, Bundesrepublik Deutschland
• 2010 Honorary Membership, Hungarian Societey for Microbiology
• 2003 Preis für Forschung in wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen, Werner Otto Stiftung
• 2004 Beijerink Lecture 2004, Royal Dutch Society of Sciences and Arts
• 2004 Glaxo Smith Kline Award, German Society for Infectious Diseases (DGI)
• 2004 Abbott Diagnostics Award, European Society for Clinical Virology
• 2004 BioMerieux Diagnostics Award, German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology (DGHM)
• 2004 Postdoktorandenpreis der Robert Koch Stiftung, Robert Koch Stiftung
• 2005 European Junior Award, Societe des Sciences de la Sante
• 2016 Gardner Lecture, European Society for Clinical Virology

ACTIVITIES

• 2012 - Coordinator of DFG focus program SPP 1596
• 2017 - Coordinator of BMBF research network RAPID
• 2017 - Elected member of the advisory board of the German Society for Virology
• 2013 - German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) internal advisory board
  Editorial board memberships (active and past): Journal of Virology, Virology, Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Eurosurveillance