Official position: Chair and Director Department of Internal Medicine IV Section of Diabetology, Endocrinology, Nephrology University Clinic Tübingen Director Institute of Diabetes and Metabolic Disease Helmholtz Center Munich at University Clinic Tübingen Scientific career Education 2004 Dissertation, Charité – University School of Medicine, Berlin 2011 Board Certification Internal Medicine 2013 Habilitation, Internal Medicine, Charité - Berlin 2017 Board Certification Endocrinology and Diabetology Trainings and Current Position 2001-2007 Internship, Internal Medicine, Charité-Berlin 2007 – 2010 Postdoctoral Fellow of the DFG, Yale University with Gerald I Shulman 2010-2014 DFG-Group Leader ‘Energy Metabolism’, Charité-Berlin 10/2014 – 09/2019 Associate Professor of Metabolic Vascular Medicine, Medical Faculty of the Technical University Dresden 10/2014 – 09/2019 Chair, Dept of Metabolic Vascular Medicine, University Clinic Dresden since 10/2019 Chair and Full Professor of Diabetology, Endocrinology, Nephrology, Medical Faculty of the University Tübingen since 10/2019 Director, Department of Endocrinology, Endocrinology, Nephrology, University Clinic Tübingen since 10/2019 Director, Institute of Diabetes and Metabolic Disease (IDM) Helmholtz Center Munich at University Tübingen since 01/2021 Director of the Southwest German Diabetes Center (SWDZ), University Clinic Tübingen