Professional appointments:
1999:  Residency in the Department of Internal Medicine V, Hematology/Oncology (Prof. A. D. Ho), University of Heidelberg, Germany
1999-2001:  Residency in the Department of Internal Medicine III, Hematology, Oncology, Rheumatology, and Infectious Diseases (Prof. H. Döhner), University Hospital of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
2002-2003 Postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Pathology (Prof. J. D. Pollack), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA (DFG scholarship)
2004-2009 Residency/Fellowship in the Department of Internal Medicine III (Hematology, Oncology, Rheumatology, and Infectious Diseases; Prof. H. Döhner), University Hospital of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
2010 Sabbatical in the Department of Pediatric Oncology (Prof. S. A. Armstrong), Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, MA, USA
2011 Attending Physician, Department of Internal Medicine III (Hematology, Oncology, Rheumatology, and Infectious Diseases; Prof. H. Döhner), University Hospital of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
 
 Awards and honours:
1998 DAAD scholarship
2002-2003 DFG research scholarship
2005 Franziska Kolb award for leukemia research
2010 Heisenberg scholarship (DFG)
 
 Memberships:
American Society of Hematology (ASH)
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
European Hematology Association (EHA)