school
1965-1968	Grundschule Hamburg "Am Lehmkuhlenweg"
1968-1977	Gymnasium Athenaeum Stade
1977	Abiturprüfungen
	academic curriculum
1977-1978	"studium generale" at Leibniz Kolleg, Tübingen
1978-1979	Studies in chemistry at the University of Tübingen
1979	Studies in biochemistry at the University of Tübingen
1981	bachelor (pre-diploma) in biochemistry
1981/1982	eight-month stay in the Department of  Biochemistry at the University of Liverpool, England
1984	diploma (master) exam in biochemistry
1984-1986	diplomawork at the Max-Planck-Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen (Department of Biochemistry; head: Prof. Dr. Uli Schwarz). Title: "Biochemical and immunological characterization of a glycoprotein from the extracellular matrix of the embryonic chick retina"
1986-1989	PhD thesis at the Max-Planck-Institute for Developmental Biology. Title: "Layer formation in the tectum opticum of the chick embryo as exemplified by the separation of the retino-tectal and the tecto-bulbärer projection".
February 1989	thesis defense in the Department of Biology University of Tübingen
1989-1992	postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, in the lab of Dr. U. J. McMahan. Title: "Cloning, characterization and expression of a chick agrin cDNA".
1992-2000	head of an independent research lab at the Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt (Department of Neuroanatomy)
1993-2000	teaching in the Department of Biology at the Technical University Darmstadt.
1998	habilitation at the University of Darmstadt, "venia legendi" for Cell Biology and Neurobiology
2000 - 2006	assistant professor at the Institute for Physiological Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry (Faculty of Medicine) at the University of Mainz
2006 - 2007	Professor for Molecular Cell Biology at the University of Applied Sciences Lausitz (now called Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences)
since 2007	Professor for the "Physiology of Adult Neurogenesis" in the Department of Physiology of the Medical School at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
since 2007	Mentor in the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
2016	Recipient of the "Felix-Jerusalem-Preis" of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Muskelkranke e.V. (https://www.dgm.org/) for work on the development and pathology of the neuromuscular junction
October 2024	retirement
Thomas Huxley:	"A man in science past 60 does more harm than good."
J. Craig Venter:	"I consider retirement tantamount to death."
Stephan Kröger:	"Sometimes even eminent scientists are wrong - in particular in age-related matters!"