1996
Abitur, Martinus Gymnasium Linz am Rhein, Germany

1996 - 1997
Civilian service     

1997 - 2002
Study of biology at the University of Cologne, Germany.

Diploma thesis (grade 1.0) at the Institute for Biological Information Processing (Prof. Dr. U.B. Kaupp), Research Centre Jülich, Germany

2002 - 2005
Doctoral thesis (Dr. rer. nat.) in Biochemistry with excellence (“summa cum laude”) at the Institute for Biological Information Processing (Prof. Dr. U.B. Kaupp), Research Centre Jülich, Germany

2003
Research at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole MA, USA

2004
Research at the Biozentrum Basel, Switzerland (Group of Prof. Dr. A. Engel, Structural Biology)

2005 - 2006
Postdoc at the Institute for Neuroscience and Biophysics (Prof. Dr. U.B. Kaupp), Research Centre Jülich, Germany and simultaneously scientific coordinator of the International Helmholtz Research School of Biophysics and Soft Matter (IHRS-BioSoft) of the University of Cologne, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf and the Research Centre Jülich

2006 - 2008
Scientific project leader in the Research and Development department with Lonza Cologne AG, Germany

since 2009
Postdoc in the Group of Biophysics and Complex Systems (Prof. Dr. Jörg Enderlein) at the Third Institute of Physics of Georg-August University Göttingen

Strünker T, Weyand I, Bönigk W, Van Q, Loogen A, Brown JE, Kashikar N, Hagen V, Krause E, Kaupp UB.
Nature Cell Biology, 8(10), 2006, 1149-54.
                                
Böhmer M*, Van Q*, Weyand I, Hagen V, Beyermann Matsumoto M, Hoshi M, Hildebrand, Kaupp UB.
EMBO Journal, 24(15), 2005, 2741-52.

Solzin J*, Helbig A*, Van Q, Brown JE, Hildebrand E, Weyand I, Kaup UB.
Journal of General Physiology, 124(2), 2004, 115-24.
                                         
(*equally contributing authors)