Research positions

• Study of Chemistry at the University of Vienna

• Ph.D at the MPI for Experimental Medicine and at the MPI for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen

• Research fellow at Harvard University, Boston

• Group leader at the EMBL, Heidelberg

• Head of the Department of Genome Analysis at the ICRF, London

• Since 1994, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin and head of the Department of Vertebrate Genomics, Professorship at the faculty of Biochemistry at the Free University

Selected Memberships and Awards

• Speaker of the German Human Genome Project

• Project committee of the National Genome Research Network (NGFN)

• European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

• Scientific advisory board of the Austrian Genome Research Project (GENAu)

• Editorial boards of several scientific journals

• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

• Ján Jessenius SAS Medal of Honour for outstanding achievements in medical sciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

• Karl Heinz Beckurts Award for achievements in genome research

Selected publications