| 1996 – 2001 | Doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat), University of Essen, Medical School |
| 1990 – 1995 | Diploma in Human Biology, Philipps University of Marburg |
| 2018 – | Scientific Coordinator, Forschungszentrum caesar, Bonn |
| 2010 – 2018 | Scientific and Personal Assistant to the director of the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany; Dpt. of Prof. Dr. Adam Antebi |
| 2009 – 2010 | Research Specialist II with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Dpt. of Medical Oncology, Prof. Dr. William G. Kaelin Jr. |
| 2007 – 2009 | Research Specialist I with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Dpt. of Medical Oncology, Prof. Dr. William G. Kaelin Jr. |
| 2005 – 2007 | Postdoctoral Fellow with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Dpt. of Medical Oncology, Prof. Dr. William G. Kaelin Jr. |
| 2002 – 2005 | Postdoctoral Fellow at the Burnham Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA; Signal Transduction Program, Prof. Dr. Robert T. Abraham |
| 2001 – 2002 | Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Cell Biology (IFZ), University of Essen, Medical School, Germany; Prof. Dr. Tarik Möröy |
| 1996 – 2001 | Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for Cell Biology (IFZ), University of Essen, Medical School, Germany; Prof. Dr. Tarik Möröy |
| 1995 – 1995 | Diploma Thesis at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ); Dpt. of Tumor Biochemistry, Heidelberg, Germany; Prof. Dietrich Keppler |
