2002 – present: Full Professor of Behavioral Genetics at the University of Trier,
Institute of Psychobiology, Head of the Department of Neurobehavioral Genetics
Research topics: Psychiatric Genetics, ADHD, stress research, epigenetics,
functional characterization of gene variants

2005 – present: Member of the International Research Training Group („Internationales Graduiertenkolleg“) „Psychoendocrinology of Stress: From Molecules and Genes to Affect and Cognition“ (GRK 1389/1; funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG)

1996 - 2002 Postdoctoral fellow, University of Wuerzburg, Clinic of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (Klaus-Peter Lesch’s group)
Research topics: Monogenic inheritance in otherwise complex psychiatric traits

1993 Award of the German Society of Human Genetics for cloning of SOX9 as the causative gene for Campomelic Dysplasia

1993 - 1996 Postdoctoral fellow, University of Freiburg, Department of Human Genetics
Research topics: Sex determination, positional cloning of the gene causing Campomelic Dysplasia, functional studies of mutations, contig assembly

1993 Dr. rer. nat. in Zoology („magna cum laude“); University of Tuebingen
Research topics: Anti-HIV-1 gene therapy, ciliate molecular biology

1989 Diploma thesis at the Department of Medical Genetics, University of Ulm
Research topic: Mapping and order of genes around Myc at mouse chromosome 15

1983 - 1989 University of Ulm, studies of Biology