Academic and Professional Career

  • Since 2024
    Deputy Head of Section of Microbiology, Faculty of Life Sciences and Technology,
    Berliner Hochschule für Technik, Berlin, Germany
  • Since 2015
    Professor of Microbiology, Department of Life Sciences and Technology,
    Berlin University of Applied Sciences and Technology (BHT), Germany
  • Since 2011
    Adjunct Professor (außerplanmäßige Professorin),
    Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine,
    University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany
  • Since 2010
    Group Leader,
    Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine,
    University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany
  • 10/2024
    Research visit at the Laboratorio de Biomedicina y Biocatálisis, Facultad de Ciencias,
    Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile
  • 2018–2024
    Head of Section of Microbiology, Faculty of Life Sciences and Technology,
    Berliner Hochschule für Technik, Berlin, Germany
  • 2012–2014
    Substitute Professor of Microbiology,
    Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Germany
  • 2011–2012
    Visiting Scientist,
    University of the Basque Country (Universidad del País Vasco, UPV),
    Bilbao, Spain
  • 2004–2010
    Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology,
    Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
  • 2003
    Habilitation in Molecular Biology,
    Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
  • 1998–2003
    Group Leader in Molecular Biology,
    Faculty of Environmental Microbiology,
    Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
  • 1994–1997
    Postdoctoral Researcher,
    CSIC – Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas,
    Madrid, Spain
    (Erwin Schrödinger Postdoctoral Fellow)
  • 1994
    PhD in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry,
    Institute of Biotechnology,
    Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Austria
  • 1982–1990
    Studies in Biochemistry and Food Chemistry,
    Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Austria