CV

2010 – 
Professor for Microbiology, Paris-Lodron University Salzburg, Austria. 

2008 – 2010 
Privatdozent (eq. Adj. Prof.) at the Johann-Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 

2008 
Habilitation in “Cell Biology” at the Johann-Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 

2004 – 2010 
Head of the independent Junior Research Group „Cellular Aspects of Pathogen-Host Interaction“, Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Langen, Germany. 

2003 
Guest Scientist in the lab of Stephan Feller, Cancer Research UK, Oxford, UK. 

2003 – 2004 
Wissenschaftliche Hochschulassistentin (C1, eq. Asst. Prof.), Institute of Experimental Internal Medicine, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany. 

2001 – 2003 
PostDoc, Schering Aktiengesellschaft, Department of Female Health Care, Berlin, Germany. Research on „New Subtypes and Mechanisms of the Estrogen Receptor“ 

2001 
PostDoc, Max-Planck-Institute of Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany. Research on „Helicobacter pylori-induced COX-2 gene expression in the pathogenesis of inflammatory and neoplastic changes in the human stomach“ 

1997 – 2001 
Dr. rer. nat. in Biology (eq. Ph.D.), Max-Planck-Institute of Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany. Title: Mechanisms of Helicobacter pylori-induced signal transduction in epithelial cells (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Naumann). 

1996 – 1997 
Diploma in Biology (eq. M. Sci. in Biology), Max-Planck-Institute of Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany. Title: Activation of transcription factors in epithelial cells after infection with Neisseria gonorrhoeae (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Naumann). 

1992 – 1997 
University of Bielefeld and Free University of Berlin, Germany.

Scholarships/Stipends
2001 – 2003   
Postdoctoral fellowship of the Schering Research Foundation.

2001             
Postdoctoral Scholarship of the Max-Planck Foundation.

1998 – 2000   
Scholarship of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie.