简介
2024-present Director of the Institute of Sex and Gender Sensitive Medicine, UDE
2020–present Vice Dean for Young Scientists and Diversity, Faculty of Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE)
2020–present Head of Commission for Research and Young Scientists, Faculty of Medicine, UDE
2016–present Member of the Gender Equality Commission, UDE
2016–present Member of the Preparatory Habilitation Commission at the University Medicine Essen (UME)
2016–present Mentor in MediMent
2016–present Women's & Gender Research Network NRW
2022–present Advisory board of the Women's & Gender Research Network NRW
2005–present Member of the Center for Medical Biotechnology (ZMB), UDE
1995–present Supervisor for more than 65 undergraduate, graduate, MD and PhD students and laboratory technicians
2016–2020 Equal Opportunities Officer, UME
2014–2016 Member of Commission for Research and Young Scientists, Faculty of Medicine, UDE
2014–2016 Member of the Commission for the Academic Title Extraordinary Professor, UME
Academic Career
Since 2012 Professor (W2), Medical Faculty, Department for Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy of Children and Adolescents, University of Duisburg-Essen
Since 2004 Head of Research Group ‘Molecular Genetics’, Department see above
1995–2004 Head of the Molecular Genetics Laboratory of the DFG Clinical Research Group ‘Genetic Mechanisms of Body Weight Regulation’, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Philipps-University of Marburg
1993-1995 Post-Doc Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf
Academic Education & Degrees
2008 Habilitation in Molecular Genetics in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Department for Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy of Children and Adolescents, UDE
1993 Promotion: Department for Anthropology and Human Genetics, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen; magna cum laude
1990 Diploma in Biology: Cell Mutation Unit, Medical Research Council, University of Sussex, UK and Department for Anthropology and Human Genetics, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
1984–1990 Study of Biology (Diploma) in Bielefeld, Tübingen and Sussex (UK)
Awards and Honors
2017 UDE-Diversity-Price 2017, Category Diversity-Research
2010 August-Homburger Price
2002 Obesity Research Price of the German Obesity Society
Selected Research Funding (within last 10 years)
2023-2026 Graute-Oppermann Graduiertenkolleg; 150.000 €
2022–2024 DFG: Promoting Excellence in Medicine: The University Medicine Essen Clinician Scientist Academy (UMEA), 2nd Funding Period, Co-Applicant; 1.103.300 €
2022–2026 Else Kröner Medical Scientist Kolleg – University Medicine Essen Medical Scientist Academy UMESciA for the Postdoc-Phase, Co-Applicant, Else Kröner Stiftung; 1.000.000 €
2022–2032 BMBF: Advanced Clinician Scientist (ACS) Program: Promoting Excellence in Translational Medicine: The University Medicine Essen Advanced Clinician Scientist Academy (UMEA²); Co-Applicant, 11.200.000 €
2021–2022 Genome wide association study for COVID-19. Stiftung Universitätsmedizin Essen; 14.500 €
2020–2023 Faculty of Medicine, Continuation of the gender denomination; 225.000 €
2019–2022 BMBF: Germany – Palestine (Regulations Governing the Funding of Scientific and Technological Cooperation (STC) with the Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education – 30. June 2017), ‘MC4RObMetS’ Genetic variants at the MC4R gene locus in obesity and the metabolic syndrome in school-aged Palestinian children; 33.000 €
2016–2019 Ministry of Science NRW: Funding within the Framework of Gender Denomination in the State Program for Gender-equitable Universities – Funding of Denominations in Gender Research; 225.000 €
2014–2015 DFG: Functional analyses on SH2B1 mutations with relevance in weight regulation; 173.750 €
2010–2012 BMBF: German-French program (Genomics and Physiopathology of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases) Early onset obesity: genetic mechanisms and physiological implications (Co-PI, together with J. Hebebrand and A. Scherag); 449.097 €
2009–2012 DFG: Genome-wide association study for attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder (Co-PI, together with J. Hebebrand, T. Renner, K.-P. Lesch); 394.275 €
2008–2013 BMBF: Nationales Genomforschungsnetz (NGFNplus), Molecular Mechanisms in Obesity; deputy coordinator, leader workblock 1: Gene identification, subproject 1: Identification of human obesity genes, 1.377.000 €
