CURRICULUM VITAE

Habilitation (Dr. med. habil., Doctor of Medical Sciences)

Doctor of Medicine (Dr. med.)

Foreign Medical Graduate Examination in Medical Sciences

Licence to Practice Medicine

Medicine and Medical Sciences, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg

Full Professor and Chairman, Institute of Human Anatomy, Universitiy of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Associate Professor and Head of Section Molecular Anatomy and Embryologie, Departement of Anatomy, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Visiting Scientist (Heisenberg Fellow) at the Departement of Ophthalmology, Duke Univerity Medical Center, Durham,              North Carolina                                                                              (Chairman: David L. Epstein, M.D.)

Visiting Scientist (Heisenberg Fellow) at the Laboratory of  Molecular and Developmental Biology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland                    (Chief: Joram Piatigorsky, Ph.D)

Heisenberg Fellowship, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn, Germany

Assistant Professor (Privatdozent) for Anatomy and Embryology at the Departement of Anatomy, Friedrich -Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Research Fellow at the Departement of Anatomy,                  Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany   (Chairperson: Prof. Dr. Elke Lütjen-Drecoll)

Research Associate at the Departement of Anatomy,           Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany (Chairman: Prof. Dr. Johannes W. Rohen)

Vice President Europe International Society for Eye Research

Permanent Member Study Section (Fachkollegiat) of the German Research Council (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft,                "Basic Science in Biology and Medicine")

Member Guidelines Committee European Glaucoma Society

Program Chair Biennial Meeting International Society of Eye Research, Berlin

Local Co-Organizer XV. International Symposium on Retinal Degeneration, Bad Gögging, Germany

Member Editorial Board "Molecular Vision"

Dean Students' Affairs Preclinical Medicine University of  Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Scintific Advisory Board, Regensburg, International Graduate School in Life Sciences (Chair)

President Anatomische Gesellschaft

Fellow of the Association of Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (FARVO)

Member Editorial Board "Journal of Glaucoma"

Invited Active Member "Glaucoma Research Society"

Member Editorial Board "Experimental Eye Research",               Section Editor "Aqueous Humor and Outflow Pathways"

Member Editorial Board "Current Eye Research",

Member Scientific Advisory Committee of the Glaucoma Research Foundation, San Francisco, CA

Pfizer Glaucoma Award of the World Glaucoma Association

2001 and

2003

Ruth Salta Junior Investigator Achievment Award of the National Glaucoma Research Programm, American Health Assistance Foundation, Rockville, Maryland, USA

Walther Kalkhof-Rose-Award of the Academy of Science and Literature, Mainz, Germany

Glaucoma Award of the German Ophthalmological Society

Ria Freifrau von Fritsch-Award, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlagen-Nürnberg, Germany

Travel Award, International Society of Eye Research

Oscar-Karl Forster Scholarship

State of Bavaria Scholarship