University training and degree

2002

PhD in Cell Biology, Basel University, Basel, Switzerland

1998

Diploma in Biology, University of Mainz, Germany

Advanced academic qualifications

2017

Professor, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Group Leader, Leibniz Institute on Aging, Jena, Germany

Since 2017

Member, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany 

2014-2017

Professor, Institute of Immunology, TU Dresden, Germany

Since 2014

Member, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden, Germany

2008-2014

Independent Group Leader, DFG Center for Regenerative Therapies, TU Dresden, Germany

Postgraduate professional career

2008-2014

Independent Group Leader, DFG Center for Regenerative Therapies, TU Dresden, Germany

2005-2008

Postdoctoral Fellow, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA

2002-2005

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Ulm, Germany

Additional Information

Editorships:

Stem Cells, CRC Press; Associated Editor ‘Experimental Hematology’

Service on scientific advisory boards:

2018 Member, Advisory Board for the ‘High Council for the Evaluation of Research and Higher Education’ (HCERES), Institute Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, FranceElected member, Board of Directors, International Society of Experimental Hematology (ISEH), Elected member, Extended Executive Board, German Stem Cell Network (GSCN), Faculty member of 1000 Post-Publication Peer Review
Co-founder of the Working Group ‘Hematopoiesis’ of the German Stem Cell Network, Member of the German Society for Immunology and the German Society for Aging

Awards:

2016 Female Scientist of the Year, German Stem Cell Network
2004 Research award from the Novartis foundation for therapeutic research

Reviewer for

Journal of Experimental Medicine and Immunity, Immunity and Nature Immunology, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Blood, Cell Reports, Cell Stem Cell, Science Translational Medicine. Grant reviews: German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG), Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Belgium, The French National Agency (ANR), The Austrian Academy of Sciences (FWF), Austria, The Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance, India,Greek Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs, Greece
Member of a review panel for evaluating the research program Aristeia from the Greek Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs, Greece and intramural research programs for the Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg, Germany