Research

• Since 08/2021: Group Leader and Clinician Scientist at the University Medical Center Goettingen (UMG), Department of Neurology, Germany
• 10/2017 – 07/2021: Postdoctoral fellow in Erika Holzbaur’s lab, University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), Philadelphia, USA (funded by a Research Fellowship from German Research Foundation, DFG)
• 01/2017 – 04/2017: Visiting scientist in Erika Holzbaur’s lab, UPenn, Philadelphia
• 03/2014 – 09/2017: Clinician scientist in Paul Lingor’s lab, University Medical Center Goettingen, Germany
• 03/2010 – 04/2016: Doctoral thesis “Intracellular signalling pathways in permeabilization of the perineural barrier” in the Department of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital of Wuerzburg, Germany

Clinical Work

• Since 02/2022 and 03/2014 – 09/2017
• Resident at the University Medical Center Goettingen, Department of Neurology

Honors and Distinctions

• 03/2022: Scientific Award of the German Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders Society (DPG)
• 10/2011: Poster prize and best junior presentation award at the annual conference of the German Association for the Study of Pain (DGSS)
• 03/2009: Nationwide best result in the German preclinical medical exam (“Physikum”)