since 2010
Full Professor at the University Children's Hospital (UKBB) and at the Department of Biomedicine (DBM), University of Basel, CH

2015 – 2017
Chairwoman of the DBM Institute Mattenstrasse, University of Basel

2010 – 2018
Research Director at UKBB, Basel

2009 – 2010
Assistant Professor at the DBM, University of Basel, CH

2003 – 2009
Professor of the Swiss National Science Foundation, DBM, University of Basel, CH

2002 – 2003
Maitre d'assistant at the Institute of Biochemistry, University of Lausanne, CH

1999 – 2001
Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at J.P. Kraehenbuehl, Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Epalinges, CH

1996 – 1999
Postdoctoral fellow with H. Acha-Orbea, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Epalinges, CH

1994 – 1996
Assistant doctor at the University Hospital, Department of Paediatrics, Freiburg i. Br., D

2009
Venia Docendi in Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel

2006
Accreditation as a "specialist immunologist" by the German Society for Immunology

1995
Doctoris medicinae, summa cum laude

1991 – 1994
Experimental MD Thesis at the Institute of Virology and Immunology, University of Würzburg, D; Supervisor: V. ter Meulen

1984 – 1990
Medical studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg i. Br., D

1983 – 1984
Voluntary social worker, Evangelical Church, Bretten, D

Since 2003                 
Immunologie Grundvorlesung (Phil. II Fakultät, Bachelor) (Leitung seit 2018)

Since 2003                 
Advanced Immunology Seminar (Phil. II Fakultät, Master) (Leitung seit 2018)

Since 2003                
Immune Disorders and Immune Therapy (Phil. II Fakultät, Master) (Leitung seit 2018)

Since 2003                 
Blut, Infekt, Abwehr Themenblock (Med. Fakultät, Bachelor), (Lecturer)

Since 2010                
Immunology PhD club (Supervisor)

2003-2021             
Grenzflächen Themenblock (Med. Fakultät, Bachelor and Master), (Co-Leitung)

2003-2018             
Blockkurs Immunologie (Phil. II Fakultät, Master) (Lecturer)

2010-2017              
Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten (Med. Fakultät, Bachelor und Master), (Co-Leitung)

2011-2015              
Wissenschaftsmonat (Med. Fakultät, Master), (Leitung)

Since 2024                 
Phil. II Fakultät: Delegierte für PhD Komitee

2021-2023              
Präsidentin und Gründerin des gemeinnützigen Vereins KOSMOS space

Since 2020                 
Wissenschaftliches Komitee Goldschmidt-Jacobson und Ederer-Weber Stiftung (Leitung)

2019-2023              
Wissenschaftliches Komitee ‘Stiftung für krebskranke Kinder’

2018                        
Wissenschaftliches Komitee der Botnar Foundation

Since 2018                 
Verwaltungsrätin bei Karger Publishers

Bis 2016                  
Dissertationspreiskommission, Med. Fakultät, Basel

Since 2014                 
Mitglied steering committee uBICo

Since 2013                 
Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences

2012-2023              
Wissenschaftliches Komitee ‘Nachwuchsfond‘, Universität Basel

Since 2010                 
UKBB Forschungsboard

2007-2014              
Prüfungskommission ‘Fachimmunologe’ der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Immunologie

Since 2003                 
SGAI, DGI, FMH, MD/PhD Gesellschaft, Forschung für Leben

2024                        
1 der 3 besten Vorlesungen des Semesters (No. 10413-01), Phil. Nat Fakultät, Basel

2021                        
Bester Themenblock (2. Platz), Med. Fakultät, Basel

2017
Lecturer of the Year (3rd place)

2015
Lecturer of the Year (1st place)

2008
Credit Suisse Award for best teaching, Basel, CH

2007
Pfizer award 2008 for Rheumatology, Immunology and Clinical Immunology, CH

2006
Young Scientist Fellowship for the 1st World Knowledge Dialogue Congress, Crans Montana, CH

2004
DBM Research Award, Basel, CH

2002
First Prize at the Germinal Centre Conference, Groeningen, NL

2001
Recipient of the Fellowship ‚Jeune chercheur fondamentaliste‘, Lausanne, CH

1991
Recipient of a national thesis scholarship "Graduiertenkolleg Infectious diseases" from the German Research Foundation, D