Ph.D. Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, 1996.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 1997 - 2004.
Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Durham University, Department of Biosciences, Durham, UK, 2004 - 2019.
Associate Professor, Durham University, Department of Biosciences, Durham UK, 2019 - present.