2018 – present
Full Professor of RNA Biochemistry at the Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bern (Switzerland).
Research topic: The in vivo roles of tRNA modifications and cellular quality control.
Elected member of Academia Europaea in 2019.
2010 – 2019
Max Planck Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine – Münster (Germany).
Research topic: The in vivo roles of tRNA modifications and cellular quality control.
ERC starting grant received in 2012.
James Heineman Research Award for Outstanding Research Achievements received in 2016.
2008 – 2010
Lecturer at the Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zurich (Switzerland).
2005 – 2010
Postdoc in the laboratory of Matthias Peter at the Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zurich (Switzerland).
Research topic: Characterization of ubiquitin-related modifier 1 (Urm1).
2001 – 2005
Ph.D. student in the laboratory of Pierre Gönczy at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research – Lausanne (Switzerland).
Research topic: The role of SAS genes in centrosome duplication.
1996 – 2001
Studies of Biology at Heidelberg University (Germany). Diploma thesis on the inducible expression of Oct-4 in the laboratory of Hans Schöler at the University of Pennsylvania (USA).
1991 – 2001
Studies of protestant theology at the Universities of Siegen (Germany), Marburg (Germany), Hebrew University Jerusalem (Israel) and Heidelberg University (Germany).