Education and positions
| since 2015 (October) | Full Professor (W3) at the ZMBH, University of Heidelberg & Member of the DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance |
| 2014 - 2015 | Full Professor at the Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2010 - 2015 | Group Leader in the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics |
| 2007 - 2014 | Associate Professor (with tenure) at the Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2003 - 2007 | Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at the Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2001 - 2003 | Postdoctoral position at the University of Chicago, Department of Ecology and Evolution (mentor: Dr. Wen–Hsiung Li) |
| 2001 | Postdoctoral position (02/2001 – 07/2001) at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (lab of Dr. Svante Pääbo) |
| 1997 - 2001 | Ph.D. degree (Summa cum laude) awarded by the University of Leipzig (02/2001). Ph.D. thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (mentor: Dr. Svante Pääbo) |
| 1992 - 1997 | Master of Science degree awarded 11/1997. Biology studies first at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany (until 1995) and then at Uppsala University, Sweden |
| 2022 | NOMIS Foundation Award |
| 2021 | European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant |
| 2021 | Award for Outstanding Research Achievements (Heidelberg University) |
| 2014 | Cloëtta Prize (Max Cloëtta Foundation) |
| 2014 | Jürg Tschopp Life Science Prize (University of Lausanne) |
| 2014 | Election to EMBO Membership (European Molecular Biology Organization) |
| 2014 | European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant |
| 2010 | Friedrich Miescher Award (Swiss Society for Biochemistry) |
| 2009 | European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant |
| 2008 | Basic Life Science Award, Faculty of Biology & Medicine, University of Lausanne |
| 2005 | EMBO Young Investigator Award (European Molecular Biology Organization) |
| 2004 | Nomination for the Heinz Maier Leibnitz young investigator award by the Max Planck Society |
| 2003 | Emmy Noether group leader funding from the German Research Council – declined (instead Assistant Professorship in Lausanne) |
| 2002 | Emmy Noether postdoctoral fellowship from the German Research Council |
| 2001 | EMBO long–term fellowship (European Molecular Biology Organization) |
| 1999 | Sino–German Young Scholar (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) |