Biography
since April 2025
Vice-President
for Research, Innovation and Transfer, University of Tübingen
since 2018
Director
NMI Natural and Medical Sciences Institute, Reutlingen
since 2011
Full Professor (W3)
University of Tübingen, Medical Faculty
2016 – 2018
Director (interim, executive)
Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology (IGB), Stuttgart
2013 – 2018
Department Head
Fraunhofer IGB, Dept. of Cell and Tissue Engineering, Stuttgart
2010 – 2014
ATTRACT-Group Leader
Fraunhofer IGB, Stuttgart
2008 - 2009
Assistant Research Professor
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Dept. of Medicine/ Cardiology, Los Angeles, CA/USA
2004 – 2008
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
2004 – 2005: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Saban Research Institute, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles/CA, USA
2005 – 2008: UCLA, Los Angeles, CA/USA
2001 – 2004
PhD
(Dr.rer.nat.) Biology/ Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering; FSU Jena
1995 - 2000
Study
(M.Sc.) Biology, Sociology, Psychology; Friedrich Schiller University (FSU) Jena
1977
Born
in Eisenach