Present, CSO at Atriva Therapeutics GmbH, Tübingen, Germany Present, Professor and Group Head of “Translational Immunology of Infection” at the Department of Immunology, University of Tübingen, Germany 1996 - 2011, Head of research group “Immunology and Cell Biology" at the Institute of Immunology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Tübingen, Germany 1994 - 1996, Research Assistant at the Institute of Experimental Immunology, Pathology Department (Prof R.M. Zinkernagel), University of Zurich, Switzerland 1991 - 1994, PhD thesis, Institute of Virology, Justus Liebig Universität Giessen, Germany (The Role of CD8+ T cells in the Immunopathogenesis After Borna Disease Virus Infection) 1990 - 1991, Diploma thesis, Institute of Virology, Justus Liebig Universität Giessen, Germany (Prof. Dr. R. Rott, Prof. Dr. L. Stitz) 1988 - 1989, Biology studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, U.S.A. 1984 - 1988, Biology studies, Justus Liebig Universität Giessen, Germany