Scientific Career:

1962 - 1967
Student of Biochemistry at the Universities of Hamburg, Berlin and Tübingen; Degree in Biochemistry

1967 - 1970
Doctorate in Immunology at the Institute of Genetics, University of Cologne under the direction of Prof. Dr. K. Rajewsky

1971 – 1973
Postdoctorate DFG-Scholarship at Karolinska-Institute in Stockholm, Sweden with Prof. Dr. H. Wigzell.

1973 – 1976
Senior-Research-Fellow at Transplantation Immunology Unit in London (The London Hospital Medical College) with Prof. Dr. H. Festenstein.

1976
Appointment as Scientific Council, Professor and Head of the Department for cellular Immunology the Institute of Immunology and Genetics at the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum) in Heidelberg.

1979
Habilitation in Immunology at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Heidelberg

1984
Appointment as C4 Professor and Chief of Staff at the Institute for ’Experimental Cancer Research’ at the University of Essen.

1987/88
Head of Section ’Experimental Cancer Research’ at the German Cancer Research Center

1989/90
President of the international ’Metastasis Research Society’.

2003/04
German Representative at the Council of the ‘European Association for Cancer Research’ (EACR).

Since 2009
Scientific Director of Tumour-Immunology at the Immunologic and Onkologic Centre of Cologne (IOZK)