Fields of Scholarship
Cellular self-organization
High-content screening
Cell nucleus
Chromosome organization
Cell division

Honours and Awards
2021 ERC Advanced Investigator
2017 EMBO member
2011 ERC Starting Independent Researcher (consolidator)
2011 Summer Research Award, Marine Biology Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA
2010 Dr. Ernst Th. Jucker Award for Cancer Research
2009 EMBO Young Investigator Award
2005 European Young Investigator Award (EURYI Award) of the European Science Foundation
2004 Junior scientist award, Society for Promotion of Molecular Biology Heidelberg
2003 Walther and Christine Richtzenhain Dissertation Award
2002 EMBO long term postdoctoral fellowship
1998 PhD fellowship “Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology”, Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg