Research Career

 

1988 - 1991	PhD on the genetics of early Drosophila development, University of Munich, Germany with Diethard Tautz
1991	Postdoctoral Fellow working on the genetics of trichome development in Arabidopsis thaliana, University Munich, Germany, with Gerd Jürgens
1992 - 1994	EMBO Fellow working on the genetics of gametophyte development in Arabidopsis thaliana,  Harvard University, Boston, USA, with Bob Pruitt.
1994 - 1999	Volkswagen Stiftung funded Group Leader, ZMBP, University of Tuebingen, Germany
1999 - present	Full Professor, Institute of Botany, University of Cologne