Studies
1981–1987 | Studies: ‘Medical Biochemistry’, II. Medical Institute Moscow, Russia
1986–1987 | Diploma level: Comparative analysis of structures of cytochrome P-450 isoforms of the liver
Research positions
1987–1992 | Research assistant at the Institute of Biochemistry of the Medical Faculty (Charité), Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
1992–1993 | Research assistant at the Research Institute of Molecular Pharmacology Berlin, Germany
1993–1994 | Post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Albany Medical College, Albany NY, USA
1994–2000 | Head of the research division of the Clinics of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation of the Medical Faculty (Charité), Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
2000–2003 | Head of the Free Radical Research Division of the Neuroscience Research Centre of the Medical Faculty (Charité), Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
2003–2006 | Head of the Free Radical Research Laboratory, Research Institute of Environmental Health, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, Germany
2006–2010 | Chair of the Department of Biofunctionality and Safety of Food in the Institute of Biological Chemistry and Nutrition, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
2010–2014 | Chair of the Department of Nutritional Toxicology in the Institute of Nutrition, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
2014 | Scientific Director of the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) Potsdam-Rehbrücke and Chair of the Department of Molecular Toxicology, DIfE/University of Potsdam, Germany
2020 | Professor for Physiological Chemistry and Cellular Biochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna
Graduations/Awards
1992 | Graduation (MD): Nucleotide degradation and free radical damage during ischemia and reperfusion of the rat small intestine
1993–1994 | DFG research fellowship
1998 | Habilitation (Lecturer of Biochemistry): Secondary antioxidative defense systems in mammalian cells – the removal of oxidation products as demonstrated by the degradation of the lipid peroxidation product 4-hydroxynonenal and the removal of oxidatively modified proteins
2013 │ Dr. h.c. University of Buenos Aires
Awards
2003 | Paul Gersson Unna Award
2003 | Skin Aging Research Award
2003 | René-Schubert-Award of Aging Research
2004 | Catherine Pasquier Award / SFRR (Europe)
2013 | Dr. h.c. University of Buenos Aires
2019 | SFRR (Europe) Basic Science Award
2020 | Grand Award of the German Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics
2020 | Fellow of the Society for Redox Biology and Medicine (SFRBM)