Professional experience:

Since 2009: Director of the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Frankfurt, Germany.

Since 2008: Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society.

Since 2008: Professor of Systems Neuroscience, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Since 2001: Principal Investigator, Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

1999 - 2001: Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Dr. Robert Desimone, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.

1998 - 1999: Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Prof. Wolf Singer, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Department of Neurophysiology, Frankfurt, Germany.

Education:

2000: Doctor of Medicine (Ph.D.) from Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Medical School. Supervisor: Prof. Wolf Singer, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany.

1998: State examination in Medicine (M.D.) at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Medical School, Frankfurt, Germany.