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I am chief scientist with AstraZeneca and adjunct Professor at the Karolinska Institute and principal investigator at the recently established Integrated Cardio Metabolic Center at the Karolinska Institute (ICMC/KI) in Stockholm, Sweden.

I was recruited to AstraZeneca from Imperial College where I was Professor and Chair of Myocardial Genetics from 2009 to 2014. I was formerly Professor and Head of the Working Group of Cardiovascular Molecular Genetics at the Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany from 2004 to 2009. I received my professional training as a Postgraduate Researcher and then Group Leader at the Institute of Molecular Medicine, UC San Diego, from 1999 to 2004 and clinical training at the University Hospital Benjamin Franklin, Free University Berlin (Charité) from 1996 to 1999. I received my doctoral degree at the Max-Planck-Institute of Physiological and Clinical Research, Department of Experimental Cardiology, and was educated at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Medical School, Frankfurt and Justus Liebig University Medical School, Giessen.

I received several prestigious awards, including the Fritz Acker Award of the German Cardiac Society (2007), the Theodor Frerichs Award of the German Society for Internal Medicine (2003) and an Astra Zeneca Award in Basic Science (2002).