Professor
Experimental Ophthalmology
University of Munster
Germany
1983-1985 Scientific Assistent, Max-Planck-Inst. Entwicklungsbiologie, Tübingen; 1986-1987 Visiting Scientist, Neuroscience Unit, McGill University, Montreal; 1987-1988 Group leader of the regeneration group, Max-Planck-Institute, Tübingen; 1988-1994 Appointment at the Eye Hospital Tübingen; 1994-1996 Awarded with a Herrmann and Lilly-Schilling professorship; 1995 Call to lead a Dept. of Experimental Ophthalmology at the University Hamburg; 1996 Call to lead the Dept. of Neuroanatomy at the Paul-Flechsig-Institute for Brain Research, University of Leipzig; 1996 Awarded with the “International Chibret Award”; 1996 Call to a professorship at the University of Tübingen; 1996 Call and appointment with the University of Münster, Head of the Dept. of Experimental Ophthalmology; 2002 Call to lead the Institute of Experimental Medicine, University of Heidelberg/Mannheim; Since 01/2010: Director of the Institute of Exp. Ophthalmologie, Univ. Münster.
Ophthalmology