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Scientific career

  • 1982-1988 Study of human medicine at the University of Munich
  • 1992 Promotion on the subject: "Detection of Rotaviruses by nucleic Acid Hybridization"
  • 1998 Specialization in Medical Microbiology and Epidemiology of Infectious diseases.
  • 1998-2001 Clinical scientist in Research on Vaccines and Antibiotics at Genetics Institute GmbH, Martinsried, Germany
  • 2002-2004 Head of Laboratory at the Dept. for Hygiene of Infectious Diseases at the Technical University of Munich, Germany
  • since 2004 Head of Dept. of Virology and Rickettsiology at the Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany
  • 2013 Professor of Virology at the University of Göttingen, Germany
  • 2015 Head of the German National Reference Laboratory for Tick-borne encephalitis
  • 2020 Professor for Virology at the Faculty for Natural Sciences of the University Hohenheim, Germany

Fields of interest an research

  • Epidemiology, Ecology, Diagnostics and Immunology of TBE and vector-borne viral and rickettsial infections
  • Author/co-author of > 230 peer-reviewed scientific articles
  • Editor of 8 books and author of >50 book chapters
  • > 600 scientific presentations on national and international conferences