Curriculum vitae
| 1994 - 2000 | Medical school at the University of Damaskus |
| 2001 - 2002 | Scholarship of the DFG in the postgraduate school in BonnMD at the Institute of Human Genetics at the Univarsity of Bonn under the supervision of Prof. Peter PoppingSubject: Linkage analyses in families with bipolar affective disorder |
| 2003 - 2009 | Fellowship at the Institute of Human Genetics in Bonn |
| 2011 | Postdoctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation) at the medical faculty of the University of BonnSubject: Molecular genetics of bipolar affective disorder |
| Seit 2010 | Group leader at the Institute of Human Genetics in ErlangenSubject: autosomal recessive intellectual disability |