Academic Career:

2020 – W2 Professorship for Circuit Mechanisms of Behavior
2010 – 2020 Project group leader, Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried
2006 – 2010 Postdoctoral Fellow, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Awards and Honors:

2017 Young Scientist Award, Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology, Germany
2011 – 2013 Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship for career development
2005 Summer course “Neurobiology”, Woods Hole, USA
2003 – 2005 PhD Scholarship, Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds

Education/Degrees:

2006 Doctoral thesis, European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen
2002 1st State examination, Biology / German language, University of Göttingen, Germany