Study of chemistry at the Westfälische Wilhelms Universität
in Münster.
PhD thesis at the Technical University of Berlin (1990).
Further study on computer languages, operating systems and communication,
Siemens Nixdorf, Berlin (1992-1993).
Department of Bioinformatics, Max-Delbrück-Center (1993-1999).
Institute for Medical Biometry, Informatics and Epidemiology, University of Bonn (2000-2002).
Department of Bioinformatics and Gene Mapping Center, Max-Delbrück-Center (since 2003).
Projects
"Genetic factors by arise and progress of multifactorial
diseases" (1994-1997)
"Statistical support for the Genotyping Service Unit"
(since 1997)
This work was funded by the Federal Ministry of Science and Education of Germany through the German Human Genome Project and the National Genome Research Network.
Research Interests
genetic epidemiology, statistical programs for mapping monogenic and multifactorial diseases, linkage and association analysis, gene chip arrays, chromosome copy number variation
