| Educational and professional background |
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| Oct. 1969 - Oct. 1973 |
Student for Microbiology at the Technische Universität München. |
| Oct. 1971 - Oct. 1972 |
"Visiting student" at Queen Elizabeth College in London. |
| Apr. 1975 |
Diplomthesis at Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry Martinsried, headed by Prof.B. Hamprecht, Dep Prof. F. Lynen. |
| Feb. 1978 |
PhD issued by Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, Topic: “Production and characterisation of neural cell lines co-expressing cholinergic and adrenergic properties“ Project continued until 1979. |
| Aug. 1979 |
Research Assistant at Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatry , 8033 Martinsried , Abt .Neurochemie. Leading a project group named “Dynamics and Stabilisation of Neural Structures". |
| July 1988 |
Habilitation (Zoology) |
| March 1991 till now |
Head of Department Biochemistry - Molecular Neurobiochemistry. Coordinator of Bachelor/Master Course and Education in Biochemistry at the Faculty for Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Ruhr-University of Bochum |
| Professional Activities: |
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| 1998 - 2002 |
Chair of Study Group Neurochemistry in the „Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie“ (GBM) |
| 9 -12th Sept 2001 |
Chair for organizing the Annual Meeting of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Herbsttagung der GBM) at the Ruhr-University of Bochum |
| 22 - 24th April 2005 |
Chair for organizing a Meeting supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) entitled: Neuroprotection and adult stem cells in memory and learning |
| December 2008 till now |
Director of RUBION: Central Facility for Radionucleotides and Ionic Radiation. Establishment of a Molecular Imaging center (STED-microscope) |
| November 2010 |
Training coordinator for EU-FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) entitled “TRANSPOL” |
| April 2011 |
Chair for GBM-Board supervising Study Courses in “Molecular Life Sciences” in Germany |
| September 2012 |
Chairman of GBM-Study Group Molecular Neurobiology organizing a Meeting in September 2012 in Bochum |
