Current position since 10/2007: Senior Research Fellow / Clinical Lecturer in David Price’s Laboratory, Department of Infection, Immunity & Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.
2004 – 2007 Postdoctoral Fellow in J.M. (Mike) McCune’s Laboratory, initially at the J. David Gladstone Institute of Virology and later at the Division of Experimental Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, both in San Francisco, California, USA.
2002 – 2004 Postdoctoral Fellow in David Nadal’s Laboratory at the Division of Experimental Infectious Diseases and Cancer Research, University Children’s Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
2000 – 2002 Research Fellow in Karin Moelling’s Laboratory at the Institute of Medical Virology, University of Zurich and Clinical Resident (House Officer) in the Department of Infectious Diseases, University Children’s Hospital of Zurich, both in Zurich, Switzerland.
Qualifications: Physikum (Preclinical Medicine) from the Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Medical Doctor (M.D.) Licensing Diploma and provisional registration (“Teilapprobation”) from the Humboldt University of Berlin, Charité, Berlin Germany; “doctor medicinae” (Dr. med.) (with honors) for the thesis titled "What is Leukocytoclasia? – a histological and electron microscopic investigation in leukocytoclastic vasculitis” from the Humboldt University of Berlin, Charité, Berlin Germany, supervised by Prof. Dr. med. G. Kolde; Full registration as an M.D. (“Approbation”) in Germany. (UK General Medical Council full registration since 2008)