1972 Born in East Marion (NY), undergraduate studies of biology at Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

2001-2005 PhD studies in cellular and molecular biology at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

2006-2009 Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA      

2009-2011 Assistant Member at Trudeau Institute, Saranac Lake (NY), USA

2011-2015 Professor of pathology and immunology at the Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis (MO), USA

Since 2015 Senior Group Leader and Director at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany