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                 
Immunology basic lecture (Phil. II Faculty, Bachelor) (Head since 2018)

Since 2003                 
Advanced Immunology Seminar (Phil. II Faculty, Master) (Head since 2018)

Since 2003                
Immune Disorders and Immune Therapy (Phil. II Faculty, Master) (Head since 2018)

Since 2003                 
Blood, Infection, Defence (Faculty of Medicine, Bachelor), (Lecturer)

Since 2010                
Immunology PhD club (Supervisor)

2003-2021             
Interfaces topic block (Faculty of Medicine, Bachelor and Master), (co-lead)

2003-2018             
Block course Immunology (Phil. II Faculty, Master) (Lecturer)

2010-2017              
Scientific work (Faculty of Medicine, Bachelor and Master), (co-lead)

2011-2015              
Science Month (Faculty of Medicine, Master), (Head)

Since 2024                 
Phil. II Faculty: Delegate for PhD Committee

2021-2023              
President and founder of the non-profit organisation KOSMOS space

Since 2020                 
Scientific Committee Goldschmidt-Jacobson and Ederer-Weber Foundation (Management)

2019-2023              
Scientific Committee ‘Foundation for Children with Cancer’

2018                        
Scientific Committee of the Botnar Foundation

Since 2018                 
Member of the Board of Directors at Karger Publishers

Until 2016                  
Dissertation Prize Committee, Faculty of Medicine, Basel

Since 2014                 
Member steering committee uBICo

Since 2013                 
Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences

2012-2023              
Scientific Committee ‘Nachwuchsfond‘, University of Basel

Since 2010                 
UKBB Research Board

2007-2014              
Examination board ‘Specialist Immunologist’ of the German Society for Immunology

Since 2003                 
SGAI, DGI, FMH, MD/PhD Society, Research for Life

2024                        
1 of the 3 best lectures of the semester (No. 10413-01), Phil. Nat Faculty, Basel

2021                        
Best thematic block (2nd place), Faculty of Medicine, 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