Director of the Research Centre for Experimental Orthopaedics at Heidelberg University Hospital
Full Professor Medical Facuty, University of Heidelberg
Offer for W3 Professorship at the Freiburg Medical Faculty (declined)
Head of the Division fpr Experimental Orthopaedics at Heidelberg University Hospital
Habilitation in Experimental Medicine, Medical Faculty, Universitx of Ulm
Post-Doc at University of California, San Francisco
PhD, Dept. of Internal Medicine I, University of Ulm
qualified as Biologist and Immunologist, University of Ulm
Scientific Program Director ICRS 2013
Board Member International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS)
Board Member Fachkollegium German Research Foundation (DFG)
Road-Map Initiative Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
President German Basic Research Society for Orthopedic Surgery
Board Member European Orthopaedic Research Society (EORS)
Biology of induced pluripotent stem cells and adult mesenchymal stroma cells (MSC), trophic actions of MSC and differentiation into cartilage and bone, molecular mechanisms of chondrocyte differentiation, tissue engineering, functionalized biomaterials for instructive tissue regeneration; biomechanical load transmission and influences on cell differentiation.