Date of birth    13. März 1957
Place of birth    Düsseldorf, Germany
Citizenship    German

Education

1975-1981    Study of biology, University of Hamburg
1981    Diploma in biology, University of Hamburg
1981-1985    Dissertation (Dr. rer. nat.) University of Hamburg

Employment

1985-1987    Postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Cell Biology in Ladenburg, Germany, Department of Prof. Dr. H.-G. Schweiger

1988-1992    Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Plant Sciences, Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland, Department of Prof. Dr. I. Potrykus

1992-2003    Senior postdoc at Friedrich Miescher-Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland, Group of PD Dr. J. Paszkowski

since 2004    Senior scientist at the Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Honorary positions

2000    Venia legendi (Habilitation), University of Basel, Switzerland
2006    Venia legendi (Habilitation), University of Vienna, Austria

Patent applications

WO 01/00801    Gene involved in epigenetic gene silencing, Amedeo, P., Habu, Y., Mittelsten Scheid, O. and Paszkowski, J (1999)

WO 01/20010    Transcriptionally silenced plant genes, Steimer, A., Mittelsten Scheid, O. and Paszkowski, J. (1999)

Research interest

Plant genetics, epigenetic regulation, transcriptional silencing, polyploidy, chromatin, genome organization, nuclear organisation