Curriculum Vitae

Degrees
1984-1991	Medical School, University of Tübingen
1991-1992	Approbation
1989-1992	MD thesis, University of Tübingen

Major previous appointments
since 2015	Head of the Platform for Single Cell Genomics and Epigenomics, DZNE
since 2007	W3-Professor & Head of Genomics&Immunoregulation, University of Bonn
2002-2007	C3-Professor for Tumor Immunology, University of Cologne
1996-2001	Instructor in Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard, Boston, USA
1993-1995	Postdoctoral Fellow, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard, Boston, USA

	Activities in the Scientific Community / Professional Memberships
since 2023	Member of the Executive Board of the DFG Excellence Cluster ImmunoSensation² (University of Bonn)
since 2023	Scientific Advisory Member, iFREC Institute, Osaka, Japan
since 2022	Speaker, EU Horizon Europe Consortium NeuroCOV
2021-2024	Steering Committee Member BMG-funded project GenomDE
2020-2023	Coordinator of the German COVID-19 OMICS Initiative (DeCOI)
since 2019	Speaker, Central Coordination Unit of the DFG-funded NGS Competence Network
2019-2020	Speaker, DFG Excellence Cluster ImmunoSensation2
since 2018	Speaker, West German Genome Center, site Bonn, one of four German DFG-funded NGS Competence Centers
since 2018	Steering Committee Member, Single Cell -omics Network Germany (SCOG)
2017-2021	Speaker, Helmholtz-funded Sparse2Big consortium
since 2017	Editorial Board, International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
since 1995	Member of the German Society for Immunology

	Honors and Awards
2023	Highly Cited Researcher 2023, Web of Science Group
2022	Highly Cited Researcher 2022, Web of Science Group
2021	Highly Cited Researcher 2021, Web of Science Group
2020	Highly Cited Researcher 2020, Web of Science Group
2020	Falling Walls Finalist with Swarm Learning
2019	Foreign Investigator Award of the Australian Society of Immunology
2019	Highly Cited Researcher 2019, Web of Science Group
2002	Sofja-Kovalevskaja Award of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation
2000	'Senior Investigator Award' of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation
1999	'Translational Research Award' of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society