CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2005 -           McKnight Presidential Fellow

2005 -           Associate Professor

2001 - 2003   McKnight Land-Grant Professor

2000 - 2004   Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry,
                    Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of
                    Minnesota

1998 - 2000   Visiting Scientist on a Habilitation-Fellowship of the
                    German Science Foundation in Frances Arnold's
                    Group at the California Institute of Technology

1995 - 1999   Head of Molecular Biotechnology Group, Institute
                    of Technical Biochemistry, University of Stuttgart,
                    Germany

1994 - 1995   Postdoctoral Associate, Institute of Technical
                    Biochemistry,University of Stuttgart, Germany
                    (with Rolf D. Schmid)

12/1994         Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Technical
                     University of Braunschweig, Ph.D. advisor: Rolf D.
                     Schmid

1992 - 1994    Ph.D. Research Associate, National Research Center
                     for Biotechnology (GBF) Braunschweig, Germany

1990-1991      Research Assistant, National Research Center for                      Biotechnology (GBF) Braunschweig, Germany

1988 - 1991    M.Sc. Biochemistry/Biotechnology, Molecular Biology,
                     Organic Chemistry, Technical University of
                     Braunschweig, Germany

1985 - 1987    B.Sc. Biology, Technical University of Braunschweig,                      Germany

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

McKnight Presidential Fellow (2005-2008)

David & Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science & Engineering (2001-2006)

McKnight Land-Grant Professorship (2001-2003)

Profiled in US News & World Report in 2000 years-end special edition on "Innovators 2001 in Science"

DuPont Science and Engineering Award for Young Professors (2000)

Habilitation-Fellowship of the German Science Foundation (DFG) (1998-1999)

Friedrich-Ebert Foundation scholarship for excellence (1988-1992)