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since 11/2011                Chair of the international master program 'Advanced Materials' 

since 04/2011               Chair in Bionanomechanics, 
                                       Ulm University

01/2010 - 03/2011        Head of the research group 'Nanostructures' (tenure track),
                                       Zentrum für Innovationskompetenz in Kardiovaskulären Erkrankungen  (ZIK HIKE),
                                       Universität Greifswald 

11/2009 - 02/2010        Visiting Scientist,
                                       Harvard Medical School, Boston

03/2005 - 12/2009        Junior group leader (Liebig scholarship, Fond of chemical industry);
                                       Institute of applied Physics and Biophysics  (H. E. Gaub);
                                       Ludwig-Maximilians Universität,  Munic

11/2002 - 02/2005        Posdoc (Minerva Scholarship),
                                       Biological Chemistry (Gideon Schreiber);
                                       Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel 

10/2002                         Promotion

11/1998-10/2002          PdD-Student,
                                       Organic Chemistry II (Horst Kessler);
                                       TU München