CV  Veronica Egger

1980-89

Staffelsee-Gymnasium Murnau
1989-96
Technische Universität München (TUM):
Diploma in Physics (Very good)
1992
Internships in Bordeaux (Center for Molecular Optics, P. Turlet)
and Budapest (semiconductor company)
1993
Rotation student at the chair of biophysics at the TUM (E. Sackmann)
1995-96
Diploma thesis at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry Martinsried/München
(B. Bechinger): "Untersuchung von Membran-Peptid-Wechselwirkungen mittels Festkörper-NMR"
1996-99
Ph.D. thesis at the Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research/Cellular Physiology
(B. Sakmann) and the faculty of Astronomy and Physics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
"The synapse between spiny neurons in layer 4 in rat somatosensory barrel cortex:
Properties and long-term plasticity" (Magna cum laude)
1999-2000
Postdoc at the Max-Planck-Institute for medical research
2000-2004
Postdoc at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA                             
(Z. Mainen and K. Svoboda)
2004-
Senior research fellow/Assistentin at the chair of cellular physiology
Institut für Physiologie/Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München  (A. Konnerth/B. Sutor)

Fellowships/Awards/Grants

1989-1995
Bayerisches Begabtenstipendium
1996-1999
Member of the graduate college "Molekulare und Zelluläre Grundlagen der Neurobiologie",
Ruprecht-Karls-Universtität Heidelberg (DFG)
2001-2003
Emmy-Noether-Fellowship (DFG)
2001
Schloessmann-Award Optical Methods in Modern Biology (MPG)
2004-2007
SFB-Project with A. Konnerth (DFG)
2006 Equipment grant from Friedrich-Baur-Foundation