Born 1963 in Liège, Belgium. Studied Biology at the United World College of the Atlantic (Wales, UK) IB (1981), Université de Liège (Belgium), and Brandeis University (USA) B.A. (1984). Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Harvard University (1990). Postdoc at Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston). Assistant Professor at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) in 1995, Associate Professor in 2000, Full Professor in 2003. Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research (since 2012).