Research Profile
1977 – 1982: Study in biology at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. (Microbiology, Plant Physiology, Physiological Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Biology)
1982 – 1985: PhD studies, Institute of Botany, Universität Würzburg (Prof. Dr. Ulrich Heber)
1984: Research Stay at the University of Sheffield (England) (Prof. Dr. David .A. Walker)
1985: Science Prize of the University Foundation Würzburg
1985 – 1987: Postdoc position at the CDB of Harvard University (Prof. Dr. L. Bogorad)
1990: Habilitation at the University of Würzburg
1991: Research Stay at the Centre Physiologie Végétale, Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse, France) (Prof. Dr. Gerard Marigo, Dr. Hervé Canut)
1996 and 1999: Research Stays in the Biological Laboratory, Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo, Japan) (Prof. Dr. Tetsuro Mimura)
1988 – 1998: Member of the DFG-Collaborative Research Centre 176 “Membrane Proteins”
1995 – 1997: Member of the DFG-Collaborative Research Centre 251 “Plant Stress Responses”
1998 – 2000: Member of the DFG-Collaborative Research Centre 549 “Extracellular Macromolecules”
1997 – current: Professorial Chair (C4) in „Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants“ at the Faculty of Biology, Bielefeld University
2000 – 2007: Speaker of the Research Unit FOR 387 “Redox Regulation in Photosynthesis” of the DFG
2002 – 2010: Member of the DFG-Collaborative Research Centre 613 “Single Molecules”
2002 – 2009: Chairing the Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology section and member of the executive board of the German Botanical Society
2002 – 2007: Advisory Board of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
2004 – 2006: Dean of Faculty of Biology
2003 – current: Juror Jugend Forscht/Schüler Experimentieren
2002 – current: Editorial Board of the Journal of Experimental Botany
2003 – current: Editorial Board of Physiologia Plantarum
2008 – current: Editorial Board of Plant Physiology
2009 – 2010: Editorial Board of Molecular Plant
2008 – 2016: Science Board (Fachgutachter) of the DFG (German Research Foundation) /Plant Sciences, re-elected 2011; Speaker of FK202 2012-2016
2009 – 2011: Executive Committee of the Federation of the European Societies of Plant Biology
7/2011 – 8/2011: Professeur Invitè de l’Université de la Grande Region et Univ. de Nancy
2012: President of the German Botanical Society
2012: Gay-Lussac-Humboldt Prize
3/2012 – 8/2012: Research stay at Université de Lorraine (Nancy, Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Jacquot)
9/2013 - 10/2013: Guest lecturer and researcher at Wellesley College, MA, USA
2015 - current: Member of Executive Board of German National Committee (Deutsches Nationalkomitee (DNK) der IUBS und IUMS
Member of the German Society of Botany, the American Society of Plant Biologists, the Scandavian Society of Plant Physiologists, the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists, Society of Experimental Biology (UK), the Federation of the European Societies of Plant Biology.
