1999-2005		Study of Physics at the Ludwigs-Maximilians University of Munich
2001-2002		Study of Physics at the University of Uppsala
2004-2005		Master of Science at the Techn. University of Munich, laboratory of Prof. M. Rief
2005-2009		Doctoral work at the Techn. University of Munich, laboratory of Prof. M. Rief Dissertation: "Energielandschaften einzelner Proteine gemessen mit der optischen Pinzette"

2010-2013		Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Harvard (Prof. X. S. Xie) Research on single-molecule fluorescence in living cells
since 2013		Professor for Experimental Biophysics at the Institut of Biophysics, University of Ulm

2010		CeNS Publication award
2010-2013		Scholarship by the Human Frontier Science Program
2012		Scholarship by the Keystone Symposia Future of Science Fund
2015		ERC Startin Grant - Single Molecule Mechanisms of Spation-Temporal Chromatin Architecture

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