2003-2006 Member of the project from German Research Foundation: "Morphogenesis and transport of nucleocapsid complexes of the Marburg virus", sub-project of SFB 593: "Mechanisms of cellular compartmentalization and their disease-relevant changes"
2003-2008 Member of the project from German Research Foundation: "Interaction of the matrix proteins and the surface protein of the Marburg virus with cellular structures", sub-project of SFB 535: "Invasion mechanisms and replication strategies of pathogens
2005-2008 Delegate of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Global Health Security Action Group
2005-2011 Member of the editorial board at the Journal of Biological Chemistry
2005-2012 Member of the project from German Research Foundation: "Budding of Marburg virus", sub-project of Priority Program SPP 1175: "Dynamics of Cellular Membranes and their Exploitation by Viruses"
2009 Member of the project from German Research Foundation: "Morphogenesis and transport of filovirus nucleocapsids", sub-project of SFB 593: "Mechanisms of cellular compartmentalization and their disease-relevant changes"
2010 Medal "100 years of Virology"
2013 Spokesman of the German Research Foundation SFB 1021: "RNA viruses: Metabolism of viral RNA, the immune response of host cells and viral pathogenesis"
2013 Member of the project from German Research Foundation: "Investigations of filovirus propagation and cellular defense mechanisms against filoviruses in the reservoir host Rousettus aegyptiacus and other fruit bat species", sub-project of SPP 1596: "Ecology and species barriers in novel viral diseases"
2013 Member of the project from German Research Foundation: "The adaptation of Marburg virus to rodents as a model for viral pathogenesis with special consideration of the mononuclear phagocytic system", sub-project of SFB 1021: "RNA viruses: metabolism of viral RNA, the immune response of host cells and viral pathogenesis"
2013 Member of the project from German Research Foundation: "Regulation of filoviral RNA synthesis: The role of RNA structures, RNA-binding proteins and the interaction with the cellular RNAi machinery", sub-project of SFB 1021: "RNA viruses: Metabolism of viral RNA, Immune response of host cells and viral pathogenesis"
2013 Member of the project from German Research Foundation: "Antivirally active factors of the type I interferon systems of bats and humans", sub-project of SPP 1596: "Ecology and species barriers in novel viral diseases"
2015 Member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
2020 Translational Infection Research Award of the German Center for Infection Research
Founding Member of the Euronet P4 initiative, high-security laboratories in the European Union
Reviewer for the German Research Foundation
Member of various scientific advisory boards and reviewer for numerous specialist journals

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