Curriculum Vitae
| Degrees | |
|---|---|
| 1990-1992 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Neurologic Diseases/Harvard Medical School, Boston |
| 1985-1989 | PhD thesis, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg |
| Major previous appointments | |
|---|---|
| since 1999 | Head of the Department of Metabolic Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich |
| 1995-1999 | Professor of Molecular Biology at the Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim (University of Heidelberg) |
| 1993-1995 | Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Harvard Medical School |
| Activities in the Scientific Community / Professional Memberships | |
|---|---|
| since 2012 | Speaker of the DFG Excellence Cluster "Systems Neurology" (SyNergy) |
| since 2005 | Member of the Board of Reviewers of Science |
| since 2000 | Organization of the Annual International Eibsee Conference "Cellular Mechanisms of Alzheimer's Disease" |
| 2002 - 2008 | Member of the Senate of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) |
| Elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) | |
Member of the board of the Alzheimer International Foundation | |
| Member of the board of Hans und Ilse Breuer Foundation | |
| Member of the board of the NOMIS Foundation | |
| Elected member of the Leopoldina | |
| Elected member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities | |
| Honors and Awards | |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Grand Prix Européen 2024 |
| 2023 | Hector Science Award |
| 2022 | Highly cited researcher 2022 (Web of Science) |
| 2022 | de Leon Prize Neuroimaging Senior Scientist (shared with Matthias Brendel) |
| 2021 | Highly cited researcher 2021 (Web of Science) |
| 2020 | Highly cited researcher 2020 (Web of Science) |
| 2019 | Highly cited researcher 2019 (Web of Science) |
| 2019 | Hartwig Piepenbrock Prize for research into neurodegeneration |
| 2018 | Brain Prize (shared with Bart De Strooper, John Hardy & Michel Goedert) |
| 2018 | DFG Reinhart Koselleck Project |
| 2017 | AFTD Biomarker Award |
| 2016 | Elected Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities |
| 2016 | Rolf Becker Award |
| 2015 | MetLife Award for Medical Research |
| 2012 | ERC advanced grant |
| 2010 | Honorary Degree of the University of Zurich |
| 2006 | Sheik Hamdan Award for Medical Sciences (in the category Biology of Aging) |
| 2006 | MetLife Foundation Promising Award for Medical Research |
| 2002 | Potamkin Award of the American Academy of Neurology (shared with Bart De Strooper) |
| 2002 | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft(DFG) |
| 2002 | Ernst Jung Award for Medicine |
| 2002 | Hansen Family Award |
| 2000 | International Alois Alzheimer Award |