Academic education
BSc. Hons. Pharmacology, University of London King’s College. (09/1987 – 08/1991)

PhD, Neurobiology, Department of Research, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Switzerland. (09/1991 – 01/1995)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Cell Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland. (01/1995 – 08/1998)

Group Leader, Institute of Cell Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland. (08/1998 – 02/2002)

Independent Junior Group Leader, Department of Molecular Embryology, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany. (03/2002 – 02/2012)

Senior Lecturer, Centre for Stem Cell Biology, Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. (01/2010 – 10/2011)

Professor, Embryology and Stem Cell Biology, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel Switzerland. (11/2011 – present)