 
  | 2016: | Meyenburg Prize/John Scott Award**/Wilhelm Exner Medal/ Tang Prize for Biopharmaceutical Science**/ Research! Sweden Research Award/Canada Gairdner International Award**/ Warren Alpert Foundation Prize*/ Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize*/Leibniz Prize/Knight (Chevalier) French National Order of the Legion of Honour/ Vallee Visiting Professorship/HFSP (Human Frontiers Science Program) Nakasone Award*/ Otto Warburg Medal/L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award*/ ABRF Annual Award for Outstanding Contributions to Biomolecular Technologies* | 
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| 2015: | World Technology Award for Biotechnology*/ Science Award of Lower Saxony/Massry Prize*/Carus-Medal of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina/ Umeå University EC Jubilee Award/ Gruber Prize in Genetics*/ Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research*/ 11th International Society for Transgenic Technologies Prize*/Hansen Family Award/Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine/Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine/Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences* | 
| 2014: | Grand Prix Jean-Pierre LeCocq (French Academy of Sciences)/ Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine**/Dr Paul Janssen Award*/ Göran Gustafsson Prize (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)/Alexander von Humboldt Professorship | 
| 2011: | Eric K. Fernström Prize | 
| 2010: | Umeå Biotech Incubator Business Idea Award | 
| 2009: | Prize of the City of Vienna: Theodor Körner Prize for Science and Culture | 
*Jointly received with Jennifer Doudna
**Jointly received with J. Doudna and F. Zhang
| 2016: | Elected Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences/Elected Corresponding Member Abroad of the Austrian Academy of Sciences/Elected Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences/ Doctor Honoris Causa; Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland/ Doctor Honoris Causa; New York University, USA/ Doctor Honoris Causa; KU (Catholic University) Leuven, Belgium | 
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| 2015: | Elected Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina/Elected Member of the European Academy of Microbiology,/Elected Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society/ Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology | 
| 2014: | Elected Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) | 
| 1992 | Pierre and Marie Curie University (France), Bachelor and Master in Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology | 
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| 1995 | Pierre and Marie Curie University, Pasteur Institute (France), Ph.D. in Microbiology | 
| 2006 | University of Vienna (Austria), Private Docent in Microbiology | 
| 2013 | Umeå University (Sweden), Docent in Medical Microbiology | 
| 1995-96 | Post-doctoral Assistant at the Pasteur Institute (France) | 
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| 1996-02 | Research Associate positions at The Rockefeller University (New York); New York University Medical Center (New York); Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine (New York); St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (Memphis) | 
| 2002-09 | University of Vienna (Austria), Guest Professor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor | 
| 2009- | Umeå University (Sweden), Associate Professor, Visiting Professor | 
| 2013-15 | Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (Germany), Department Head Hannover Medical School (Germany), Professor | 
| 2015-16 | Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology (Germany), Director | 
| 2016 | Humboldt University (Germany), Honorary Professor | 
| 2017- | Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens (Germany), Director |