Professor at Technische Universität Dresden and Leader at the Dresden site of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), a national research center covering all aspects of neurodegenerative disease, from basic research to clinical and population-based studies.

Prmary interest is adult neurogenesis, the lifelong production of new neurons in the mammalian hippocampus with a focus on how adult neurogenesis is regulated by behavioral activity and how it contributes to brain function in health and disease.