EDUCATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL CAREER 2020 Professor for Retinal stem cell research and neurogenesis – TU Dresden, Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD) 2012 Group Leader — German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Helmholtz Association 2012 Affiliated Group Leader — TU Dresden, Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD) 2010 Independent Research Associate Group Leader – TU Dresden, CRTD, until 2012 2005 Senior Research Fellow – DFG Postdoc Fellowship, Prof. T. Reh PhD, UW, Seattle, USA 2003 Junior Research Fellow – Prof. O. Strauss PhD, Exp. Ophthalmology, UKE-Hamburg, Germany 2002 Junior Research Fellow – Funke Fellowship, Prof. M. Civan, MD, Physiology, UPENN, USA 1999 Doctoral Thesis – summa cum laude, 2006; Werner-Otto Fdt. Fellowship, UKE-Hamburg 1996 Medical School – 2004 MD degree / Approbation, Univ. Hamburg, Germany AWARDS 2014 EYEnovative Award – Novartis Pharma GmbH 2012 EYEnovative Award – Novartis Pharma GmbH 2009 Innovative Ophthalmology Research Award ARVO-AFER – www.arvofoundation.org 2006 Kaj Ulrik Linderström-Lang Thesis Award – Freundes- & Förderkreis UKE e.V., Germany