PhD in Mathematics from the Univ. of Heidelberg, Sept. 2004; Oct. 2010-March 2012 Junior Professor for Biomedical Computing, Univ. of Münster; since April 2012 full professor for Mathematics with Applications to Life Sciences, TU Kaiserslautern.

2009-2012 scholarship of the Elite Program for Postdocs, Baden-Württemberg Foundation; 2010-2012 PI in the projekt Modeling and Simulation of TNF receptor clustering, in the SimTech Excellence Cluster DFG-EXC 310, Univ. of Stuttgart; 2014-2016 PI DFG-Project Multiscale Modeling of Acid-Mediated Tumor Invasion with Random Dynamics 2016-2019 Coordinator of the BMBF project GlioMaTh: Glioma, Mathematical Models, and Therapy Approaches. Further smaller projects related to tumor invasion, synapse formation and NT dynamics.