Scientific Career History

2004 – present  Professor of Molecular Immunology at the Department of Immunology, University of Tübingen

1996 – 2004     Group Leader at the Department of Immunology, University of Tübingen

1993 – 1996     Postdoctoral Fellow at the German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg, Applied Tumorvirus-Immunology

1992 – 1993     Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Tübingen with Hans-Georg Rammensee

1988 – 1992     Ph.D. thesis at the University of Tübingen under supervision of Prof. Günter Jung entitled: Multiple Sequence Analysis

1980 – 1988     Biochemistry studies at the University of Tübingen

Basic research: HLA-peptide interactions, mapping of the HLA ligandome by ligand elution and mass spectrometric
analysis, determination of peptide motifs of all common HLA molecules, screening for T cell reactions against viral epitopes. Applied and
translational research: Epitope prediction, GMP-grade peptide synthesis, composition of peptide cocktails for vaccination studies with tumor
patients.