Scientific Degrees

2011	Doctorate, Computational Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK

Professional Experience

Since 2022	W3 Professor of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University Medicine Greifswald, Chair Institute of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
2016-2022	Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt
2016-2022	W2 (assistant, tenure-track) Professor, School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Freising
2014-2016	Burroughs Wellcome Fund and Swartz Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Eve Marder, Brandeis University, Waltham, US
2011-2014	Postdoctoral Fellow with Profs. Haim Sompolinsky and Markus Meister, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, US
2013	Independent Investigator, Grass Laboratory, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, US

Others (last 5 years)

2019-2025	ERC Starting Grant 2018 NeuroDevo
2022-2024	Leibniz Collaborative Excellence
2021-2024	Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP) Grant
2023	TUM IAS Linde Lecture
2022	Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, DFG
2021	Eric Kandel Young Neuroscientists Prize, Hertie Foundation and FENS
2021	FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence Scholar