since 2019: President of the Technical University of Munich (TUM)

2023: Awarded as the University Manager of the Year in Germany

2017 – 2019: Director of the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at TUM

2009 – 2019: TUM Senior Vice President Research and Innovation

Since 2007: Professor und Chair of Food Chemistry and Molecular Sensory Science at TUM

2002 – 2006: Professor and Executive Director of the Institute of Food Chemistry at University Münster

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