Ph.D., Technical University of Munich, 1997
Member of the Graduate Research Advisory Committee (GRAC), Graduate School, University of Minnesota, Spring 2006-present
Organizer of Annual Hands-On Fluorescence Workshop for Students of Biological Sciences, 2006-2010
Panel Member, Biological Physics Review, NSF, 2006
Session Chair, 6th International Weber Symposium on Innovative Fluorescence Methodologies in Biochemistry and Medicine, 2005
Member, “Single cell / Single molecule” focus group as part of CBISC (Steering Committee of the Chemical Biology Initiative, 2004
Panel Member, MPS-MCB Review, NSF, 2004
Session Chair, 5th International Weber Symposium on Innovative Fluorescence Methodologies in Biochemistry and Medicine, 2002
Experimental biophysics, Two-photon excitation microscopy, Fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy