M.D., Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 1987
Ph.D. in Biology/Immunology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1992.
Advisor: Susumu Tonegawa
Postdoc in Neurobiology, Columbia University,
New York, NY, USA, 1993-1995.
Advisor: Richard Axel
Assistant Professor (1995-2001), Associate Professor (2001-2003), and Professor (2003-2007), The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
Director, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt (2006-2013)
Director, Max Planck Research Unit for Neurogenetics (2013-now)