Abitur, Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium, Groß-Bieberau.

Studies of Biology, Technical University of of Darmstadt.

Diploma, Department of Biology, Technical University of Darmstadt. Thesis: Learning-induced plasticity in spectrotemporal receptive fields in auditory cortex. Predicate: summa cum laude.

Supported by DFG-Schwerpunktprogramm "Theory and physiology of neuronal networks".

Dissertation, Department of Biology, Technical University of Darmstadt. Thesis: Nonlinear neuronal interactions between spectral components in complex signal representation in auditory cortex. Predicate: summa cum laude.

Postdoc at the Leibniz Insitute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg. Research on cortical processing of temporal sound features.

Postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Research on neuronal dynamics in awake behaving animals.

Group leader at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg. Setup of a laboratory for the study of multichannel cortical neurodyamics in awake behaving rodents. Establishment of single-trial analysis methods. Research on learning-induced plasticity. Teaching at the departments of Neuroscience and Physics and at the Medical School. Supervision of graduate projects (dissertations) from science departments and medical departments.

Habilitation at the Faculty of Medicine at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg.

Winner of the "BioFuture" award of the BMBF.

"Secundo loco" in the list for a C3 professorship for physiology at the Faculty for Medicine of the University of Hamburg (under Prof. A.K. Engel)

"Secundo loco" in the list for a C3 professorship for Experimental Audiology
University of Münster

Deadline of a call to a W2 professorship at the University of Münster

W2/C3 Professor, University of Magdeburg

Coordinator of the SFB 779 "Neurobiology of motivated behavior"

Shortlisted for professor position W3 (primo loco) University of Tübingen

Shortlisted for professor position W3 (primo loco) University of Freiburg

Decline of a call to a W3 professorship at the University of Freiburg

Director of the Department "System physiology of learning" at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg

W3-Professor, University of Magdeburg, Institute for Biology