Education

1986 – 1990 Promotion at Department of Zoology II, University of Karlsruhe and Department of Reproductive Biology, German Primate Center, Göttingen, Germany

1979 - 1986 Studies of Biology and Sports, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Professional appointments

08/2010 - 03/2024 Distinguished professor for Endocrinology at Humboldt University and Head of the Full professor for Endocrinology at Humboldt University and Head of the Department of Ecophysiology and Aquaculture at Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany

2002 - 2010 Full professor for Endocrinology at Humboldt University and Head of the Full professor for Endocrinology at Humboldt University and Head of the Department of Ecophysiology and Aquaculture at Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany

1999 - 2002 Head of the Department of Ecophysiology and Aquaculture at Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany

1999 - 1999 Head of the Department of Zoology II, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

1996 - 1999 Associated professor and lecturer, Department of Zoology II, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

1992 - 1996 Assistant professor, Department of Zoology II, University of Karlsruhe, Germany (since 11/1992 granted by DFG (Kl 745/2-2))

1992 - 1995 Habilitation in Zoology at the Faculty of Biological and Geological Sciences, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

1991 - 1992 Postdoctoral fellow, European Institute for Peptide Research, France; granted by German Research Foundation (DFG) (Kl 745/1-1)