Present appointment:

Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore (NUS), 100%

Academic qualifications:

1989       Diplom in Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany

1989       Diploma thesis at Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

1994      Dr. rer. nat., University of Wuerzburg, Germany (‘summa cum laude’; with M. Schartl)

2005      ‘Habilitation’ (Developmental Biology), University of Wuerzburg, Germany

2006      'Privatdozent' (PD, Member of Faculty of Biology), Univ. of Wuerzburg, Germany

2007       Associate Professor, National University of Singapore

Past and present employments:

1994-1996 Postdoctoral fellow, Biocenter, University of Wuerzburg, Germany (with M. Schartl)

1996-1998 HFSP postdoctoral fellow, HHMI, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, USA (with R.T. Moon)

1998-2007 Group Leader, Physiological Chemistry I, Biocenter, Univ. of Wuerzburg, Germany

2002-2007 Senior Lecturer/Akademischer Rat (with tenure), Biocenter, University of Wuerzburg

2007-now  Associate Professor (since 2013 with tenure), National University of Singapore

2024-now  Director (Scientific), AquaPolis, Singapore