Current Appointments05/2022 - present W-3 Professor for Clinical Metabolism and Obesity ResearchDepartment of Internal Medicine IV, Division of Diabetology, Endocrinology and Nephrology, Eberhard-Karls University Tübingen, GermanyHelmholtz Center Munich at the University of Tübingen06/2021 - present Head of Clinical Study CenterInstitute of Diabetes Research and Metabolic Diseases (IDM)German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD)06/2021 - present Research Group Leader (Helmholtz Young Investigator Group)Helmholtz Center Munich at the University of Tübingen06/2021 - present Research Group Leader (Junior Research Group)Cluster of Excellence 2124 – Controlling Microbes to Fight InfectionPrevious Appointments2011 - 2021 Residency and Consulting Physician in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology/Diabetology at Charité University Medicine Berlin2016 - 2021 Head Endocrinology of the Interdisciplinary Obesity Center Charité2019 - 2021 Head of the Charité Nutrition Team2015 - 2016 Visiting Research Fellow at Turnbaugh Lab, University of California at San Francisco, CA, USA2008 - 2011 Visiting Reseach Fellow at NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, Phoenix, AZ, USAEducation2001 - 2003 Undergraduate Studies in Medicine at Ruhr-University Bochum2003 - 2008 Graduate Studies in Medicine at University of Leipzig2007 Intern at Medical School of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA