Scientific career and academic education
| 2013 – | Professor (W2), Neurophysiology, Institute of Zoology, Regensburg University |
| 2011 – 2014 | BMBF research group leader, Neurobiology, Department Biology II, LMU, Munich (B. Grothe) |
| 2004 – 2011 | Research Assistant, Physiologisches Institut, LMU, Munich (A. Konnerth, B. Sutor) |
| 2000 – 2004 | Postdoc, USA, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Z. F. Mainen and K. Svoboda) |
| 1999 – 2000 | Postdoc, MPI for medical research (B. Sakmann) |
| 1996 – 1999 | PhD Dissertation, MPI for medical research (B. Sakmann) and Faculty for Physics and Astronomy, Heidelberg |
| 1989 – 1996 | Diploma in Physics, Technical University, Munich |
Honors and grants
| 2025 | ERC Advanced grant COLUMNET |
| 2022 | Speaker of DFG-FORschungsgruppe 5424 "Modulation in olfaction (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster)" |
| 2020 – | Priority programme 2205 “Evolutionary Optimisation of Neuronal Processing”: Tandem project with Dr. Silke Sachse, MPI for chemical ecology Jena (DFG) |
| 2018 – 2023 | GIF (German Israeli Foundation) grant with Jackie Schiller and Adi Mizrahi: "Mechanisms of plasticity in primary olfactory pathways" |
| 2018 – 2022 | DFG project grant EG 135/6-1 |
| 2017 – 2020 | DFG project grant EG 135/5-1 with Dr. Michael Lukas |
| 2016 – 2019 | Project with Prof. Eugen Kerkhoff in DFG GRK 2174: "Neurobiology of Emotion Dysfunctions" (speaker Prof. Inga Neumann) |
| 2014 | BayIntAn Grant (Bayerische Forschungsallianz) for collaboration with Prof. Mathias Dutschmann, Florey Institute, Australia |
| 2012 – 2015 | Priority programme 1392 “Integrative analysis of olfaction” : Tandem project with Dr. Jovica Ninkovic (DFG) |
| 2011 – 2019 | Independent Junior Research group: “Function of a reciprocal synapse” (BMBF) |
| 2010 – 2013 | Member of Young CAS (Center for Advanced Studies, LMU); Mentee in LMU-excellent Mentoring Program (Prof. Kirsten Jung) |
| 2009 – 2012 | Priority programme 1392 “Integrative analysis of olfaction” : Tandem project with Prof. Dr. Magdalena Götz (DFG) |
| 2009 – 2013 | Collaborative Research Center/SFB 870 “Assembly and Function of Neuronal Circuits in Sensory Processing”, Project (DFG) |
| 2009 – 2013 | Member of Munich Center for Neuroscience und Graduate School of Systemic Neuroscience (MCN-, GSN-LMU) |
| 2007 – 2015 | Member of Steering Committee in Priority Program 1392 “Integrative Analysis of Olfaction” (DFG) |
| 2004 – 2007 | Collaborative Research Center/SFB 391 “Mechanisms of fast cell activation”: Project with Prof. Dr. A. Konnerth (DFG) |
| 2001 – 2003 | Emmy-Noether Postdoctoral fellowship (DFG) |
| 2001 | Schloessmann-Award “Optical methods in biology” (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) |
| 1996 – 1999 | Member of the graduate college ‘Molekulare und Zelluläre Grundlagen der Neurobiologie’, Ruprecht-Karls-Universtität Heidelberg (DFG), 1996-1999 |
| 1989 – 1995 | Bayerisches Begabtenstipendium (Scholarship) |
Other activities
| 2024 | Member of DFG review panel FK 2.23 |
| 2023 – | Member of the Senate of Regensburg University |
| 2023 – 2025 | Treasuress of the German Neuroscientific Society (NWG) |
| 2019 – 2023 | Speaker of the section "Cellular Neuroscience" of the German Neuroscientfic Society (NWG) |
| 2017 | Organisation of an international symposium “Neuronal Mechanisms of Odor-guided Behaviour” at Regensburg University, with Prof. Dr Joachim Ruther, Regensburg, Prof. Dr. Silke Sachse, MPI for chemical Ecology Jena, Prof. Dr. Ilona Grunwald-Kadow, TUM (Supported by Vielberth-Foundation and BMBF) |
| 2016 | Organisation of an international symposium at FENS Kopenhagen (Supported by DFG/SPP 1392) |
| 2014 – | Co-Editor of Journal of Neurophysiology |
| 2013 – | Director of MSc program "Experimental and Clinical Neurosciences (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster)“ Regensburg University, since 2022 integrated in MSc Biology |
| 2013 | Organisation of an international symposium “Inhibition in olfaction“, CAS LMU Munich, with Dr. Silke Sachse, MPI for chemical Ecology Jena (Supported by CAS and DFG/SPP 1392) |