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Faculty Positions

Since 2019

Scientific and Managing Director (MPUSP) and Honorary Professor (HU)

  • Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens (MPUSP), Berlin, Germany
  • Institute for Biology, Humboldt University (HU), Berlin, Germany

2018

Founding and Acting, Scientific and Managing Director (MPUSP)

  • Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens (MPUSP), Berlin, Germany

2015-2018

Department Head and Scientific Director (MPIIB) and Honorary Professor (HU)

  • Department of Regulation in Infection Biology (RIIB), Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology (MPIIB), Berlin, Germany
  • Humboldt University (HU), Berlin, Germany

2013-2015

Department Head (HZI); Full W-3 (MHH) and Alexander von Humboldt Professor

  • Department of Regulation in Infection Biology (REGI), Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Braunschweig, Germany
  • Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hannover, Germany

2009-2017

Laboratory Head; Associate and Visiting Professor

  • The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
  • Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
  • Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
  • Faculty of Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

 2002-2009

Laboratory Head; Guest, Assistant and Associate Professor

  • Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
  • Department of Microbiology & Immunobiology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
  • Institute of Microbiology & Genetics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

1993-1995

University Teaching Assistant

  • University Pierre & Marie Curie, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

Post-Doctoral Positions

1996-2002

Post-Doctoral Associate, Assistant Research Scientist and Research Associate

  • Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York, NY, USA
  • Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
  • New York University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
  • The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
  • Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

Docent Qualifications

2013

Docent (Medical Microbiology)

  • Faculty of Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

2006

Private Docent (Microbiology, “Habilitation” Dissertation)

  • Centre of Molecular Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Undergraduate and Graduate Studies

1995

Ph.D. Degree (Microbiology)

  • University Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, France
  • Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

1992

Bachelor and Master Studies (Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Microbiology and Genetics)

  • University Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, France
  • Pasteur Institute, Paris, France