Professional Interests

• Structural biology
• Proteasome research
• Protein-nucleic acid complexes
• Fungal virulence factors

Education and Professional Experience
Since 2018      Group Leader, Technische Universität München
2015 - 2021     Habilitation, Biochemistry, Technische Universität München
2013 - 2015     Postdoc, Biochemistry, Technische Universität München
2009 - 2013     Ph.D., Biochemistry, Technische Universität München
2004 - 2009     Biochemistry programme (B. Sc., M. Sc.), Technische Universität München
2004                  High School Degree (Abitur), Straubing
 

Prizes and Awards
2022                   Habilitation prize Freunde der TUM e. V.
2022                   selected as ChemBioTalent
2021                   Research prize of the Peter and Traudl Engelhorn Foundation
Since 2018       Principle investigator within the Collaborative Research Centre 1309 “Chemical biology of epigenetic modifications”
2017-2023        Member of the Young Scholars’ Program of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2016-2018        Postdoctoral stipend by the Peter und Traudl Engelhorn Foundation
2014                   Bayer Healthcare Ph.D. Award, Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie
2014                   CIPSM Lecture Award, Wildbad Kreuth
2014                   Poster Award, 49th Winter Seminar Biophysical Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Cybernetics of Cell Functions, Klosters
2013                   Springer Thesis Prize, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research
2012                   Management Engineers Presidential Award, TUM
2012                   Best Scientific Presentation Award, 29th Winter School Proteinases and their inhibitors - Recent developments, Tiers
2010                   Jürgen Manchot Award, TUM
2007-2009        Fellowship of the German National Academic Foundation