July 2014 – December 2015; Graduate Certificate of University Learning and Teaching, University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia)
December 1998 – December 2002; Ph.D. in biology (magna cum laude), University of Heidelberg, Germany
December 1998; Diploma (M.Sc.) in biology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
September 1993 – December 1998; Undergraduate studies in biology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
September 1996 – August 1997; Studies in medical biochemistry as Erasmus exchange student at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, U.K.