He now works together with a growing international group of scientists from more than 30 nations. In 2020, he built a Department structure at the Institute of Innate Immunity allowing for interdisciplinary approaches to tackle research questions in immunology and inflammation research. He is co-speaker of the Excellence Cluster ImmunoSensation2 and speaker of the SFB 1454 Metaflammation and Cellular Programming.
He is a highly cited scientist in immunology yearly since 2014, and he has received prestigious awards, such as the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2018.