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Education
since 2010	Head of Biotechnology of Natural Products, TUM
2003 - 2010	C3 professor, head of Biomolecular Food Technology at Technical University of Munich, Germany'
2000 - 2003	Plant Research International, Wageningen, The Netherlands
2000	Instituto de la Grasa, Sevilla, Spain'
1999	Habilitation, venia legendi for ‘Food chemistry’
1998	Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, USA'
1994 - 2002	Research assistant at Institute of Food Chemistry, University of Würzburg'
1991 - 1994	Research scientist in the metabolism laboratory of business unit ‘ Agriculture’ of Hoechst AG and AgrEvo, Frankfurt
1990 - 1991	Training at the Chemical Research Institute for Health Service, Erlangen, 2. State examination
1989 - 1990	Research associate with Prof. Rodney Croteau at Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington State University, USA
1986 - 1989	PhD research at Faculty of Chemistry, University of Würzburg, Thesis: "Investigations on non-volatile metabolites of plant aroma compounds"
1981 - 1985	Study of Food Chemistry, University of Würzburg, 1. State examination

Honors and Awards
1999	Recipient of the Schormüller Prize, GdCh
1998	Young investigator Award, Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
1990	Award for outstanding thesis, Unterfränkische Gedenkjahresstiftung
1989	NATO postdoctoral research fellowship