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Biographical Sketch |
Education |
| 1974 |
Diploma (M.Sc.)in Botany, University of Hamburg |
| 1978 |
PhD, University of Hamburg |
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| Research Career |
| 1978 - 1986 |
Assistant Professor, Botany Department, University of Münster |
| 1982 |
Visiting Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, N.Y. |
| 1983 |
Habilitation in Botany, University of Münster |
| 1986 - 1988 |
Heisenberg Fellow, German Research Foundation (DFG), Münster |
| 1988 - 2017 |
Full Professor, Institute of Botany, University of Cologne |
| 2017 |
Professor Emeritus |
| 2019-2023 |
Senior Professor of Phycology, University of Duisburg-Essen |
| 2020 |
Senior Guest Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne |
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| Honors and Community Service |
| 1984 |
Biology Prize, Göttingen Academy of Sciences |
| 1991 - 1993 |
Dean, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences |
| 1992 - 1994 |
President, International Society for Evolutionary Protistology |
| 1993 - 1994 |
Vice-President, British Phycological Society |
| 1996 - 2000 |
Member, University Senate, University of Cologne |
| 1998 - 2022 |
Editor-in-Chief, Protist |
| 2003 |
Corresponding Member, Botanical Society of America |
| 2002 - 2004 |
President, International Phycological Society |
| 2005 - 2010 |
Chair, University Advisory Council, University of Cologne |
| 2011 - 2012 |
Vice-President, International Society of Protistologists |
| 2014 |
von Stosch Medal, German Botanical Society |
| 2014 |
Honorary Member, Hellenic Phycological Society |
| 2017 |
Honorary Professor, Nguyen Tat Thanh University, Ho-Chi-Minh City, Vietnam |
