EDUCATION/TRAINING INSTITUTION AND LOCATION DEGREE YEAR(s) FIELD OF STUDY Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany, MD 1996-2002 Medicine Royal London Hospital, Barts and The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK Royal Infirmary, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Boston University School of Public Health MSc 2007-2008 Epidemiology Habilitation Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, PD 2011 Internal Medicine Germany Habilitation Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany 2011

Professional Training/Experience 2001-2002 Internal Medicine, Intern at the Department of Medicine II, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz 2002 MD thesis (Dr. med.) with the topic: “Quantitative Analysis of Regional Wall Motion by Color Kinesis in Stress Echocardiography in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease”, Department of Medicine II, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, (Promotion) 2002-2006 Resident and Fellow at the Department of Medicine II, Johannes Gutenberg- University Mainz 2007 Research Fellow at the Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA 2007-2008 Scholarship for post-doctoral training at the Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA by German Research Foundation (DFG) 2009-2011 Cardiology Fellowship Department of Medicine II, Johannes Gutenberg- University, Mainz 2011 Board certification ‘Internal Medicine’ 2011 Habilitation, assistant professor Department of Medicine II, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz 2012 Board certification in Cardiology (Facharzt Kardiologie) 2011-present Assistant professor University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Department of General and Interventional Cardiology 2011-present Emmy Noether Junior Research Group, German Research Foundation (DFG) 2012-present Senior physician University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Department of General and Interventional Cardiology 2015-present ERC consolidator grant research group

Certification & Honors 2006 Winner of the “Dagmar Eißner Prize for Young Scientists” of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz 2006 Recipient of the “Young Investigator Award in Clinical Science” of the European Society of Cardiology 2007 Winner of the “Best Science Award” Scientific Sessions Poster Competition of the American Heart Association 2008 PhD thesis (Habilitation) grant by Kalkhof-Rose Foundation 2008 “Elisabeth Barrett-Connor Young Investigator Award” finalist, AHA 08 2009 Functional Genomics & Translational Biology Young Investigator Award, AHA 09 2011 Habilitation, “Epidemiology and Genetics of novel Biomarker Systems in Coronary Artery Disease” 2011 Best Poster Award of the German Society of Internal Medicine