Development of the immune system

• Since 2016 Professor (W3) and Director/Chair, Department of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Charité – University Medical Centre Berlin
• 2013-2016 Professor (W3) and Director/Chair, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Johannes-Gutenberg University of Mainz, Medical Centre
• 2006-2013 Professor (W3), Mikrobiologie & Molekulare Infektionsimmunologie, University of Freiburg Medical Centre
• 2003-2006 Irene Diamond Assistant Professor of Immunology (tenure track), Assistant Professor of Pathology, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University Medical Center, New York, USA
• 1999-2002 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• 1996-1998 Resident, Institut für Klinische Mikrobiologie, Immunologie & Hygiene, University of Erlangen
• 1992-1997 M.D. student, Institut für Klinische Mikrobiologie, Immunologie & Hygiene, University of Erlangen

• 2012 Board Exam (Facharztprüfung), Microbiology, Virology & Epidemiology of Infections
• 1997 Dr. med. (summa cum laude), Microbiology/Immunology, University of Erlangen
• 1996 M.D., Medicine, University of Erlangen
• 1989-1996 Medical School, University of Erlangen, Germany and Imperial College, London, UK

Boards (selection)

• Since 2019 Editorial Board, Immunity
• Since 2017 Executive Committee, ZIBI Graduate Scholl for Infection and Immunity
• Since 2016 Coordinator, DFG Priority Program 1937 “Innate Lymphoid Cells”
• 2015-2016 Speaker, Research Centre Immunology, Universitätsmedizin Mainz
• 2009-2013 Director, Integrated Research and Training Group (IRTG-IMM) of SFB 620
• 2009-2013 Executive Committee, Max-Planck-Research School of Molecular & Cellular Biology (IMPRS-MCB), Max-Planck-Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics

Memberships

• American Association of Immunologists (AAI)
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie (DGHM)
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immunologie (DGfI)
• Society of Natural Immunity (SNI)

Selection

• 2022 ERC Advanced Grant “ILCADAPT: How cells of the innate immune system respond to tissue metabolic changes”
• Since 2017 Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics, Web of Science Group)
• 2013 ERC Starting/Consolidator Grant
• 2010 Main Scientific Prize, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mikrobiologie und Hygiene
• 2009 Kavli Fellow, National Academy of Sciences USA & Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung
• 2004-2005 Whitehead Fellowship for Junior Faculty in Biomedical Sciences
• 2003-2006 Irene Diamond Professorship for Immunology
• 2000-2003 Postdoctoral Fellowship for Physicians, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• 1999-2000 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
• 1998 Dissertation Award (summa cum laude), University of Erlangen
• 1993/1994 Stipend, Dr. Carl Duisberg Stiftung

Selection (from 2011 – ongoing)

• 2022-2027 (pending): ERC Advanced Grant “ILCADAPT: How cells of the innate immune system respond to tissue metabolic changes”
• 2018-2022 DFG TR241: Innate modules of intestinal epithelial cell protection in inflammatory bowel diseases
• 2018-2022 DFG TR84: Pathogen recognition by taste and odorant receptors and coupling to BALT formation and epithelial remodeling
• 2018-2022 DFG TR84: Regulation of antibacterial defence in the lung by the alarmin
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• 2017-2020 DFG FOR2599: Signals orchestrating innate type 2-mediated immunity
• 2017-2023 DFG SPP1937: Coordination proposal
• 2017-2023 DFG SPP1937: Epigenetic and transcriptional plasticity of ILC
• 2016-2019 DFG SPP1656: Characterization of mononuclear phagocyte populations that mediate microbiota-ILC3 interactions
• 2015-2024 DFG SFB-TR156: The role of skin-resident innate lymphoid cells for resistance to infection and colonization with the pathobiont Staphylococcus aureus
• 2013-2018 ERC Starting/Consolidator Grant: NutrImmune: Nutrient-controlled molecular path-way instructing development and function of mucosa-associated innate lymphocytes

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