External Positions
- Review panel member, Advisory Committee - Research program for the Priority Program (SPP1782) “Epithelial intercellular junctions as dynamic hubs to integrate forces, signals and cell behavior”, University of Liepzig, Germany., Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany, 2020 - 2018
- Panel member, Advisory committee - Research programme UMR5237 CNRS – Centre de Recherche en Biologie Cellulaire de Montpellier (CRBM) Université de Montpellier, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France, 2020 - 2020
- Panel member, Selection Committee - recruitment staff - Serra Húnter Programme, Barcelona, Spain, University of Lleida, Spain, 2020 - 2020
- Advisory panel member, Advisory Committee - research programme Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Biomedicine, Muenster, Germany, Max Planck Society, Germany, 2019 - 2021
- committee member, BBSRC Japan Partnership, with Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, BBSRC, 2018 - 2018
- Committee member, China Partnerships, BBSRC, 2018 - 2018
- Advisory Committee - Post-graduate Studies at Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil., Department of Biochemistry and Immunology, Institute of Cell Biology,, 2017 - 2017
- panel member, Innovate UK Grant committee, Innovate UK, 2017 - 2017
- Member of Review Panel, Advisory committee - program of research Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 829 “Molecular Mechanisms regulating Skin Homeostasis University of Cologne, Germany, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany, 2016 - 2016
- Committee member, BBSRC Grant Panels C and D, Biotechnology and Biosciences Research Council - BBSRC, 2015 - 2018
- panel member, Agence Nationale pour la Recherche, 2012
- panel member, Royal Society Newton International Fellowship Committee, Royal Society, 2011
- Panel member, Research Council Norway, 2008 - 2009
Membership of Professional Bodies
- Fellow of the Society of Biology, Society of Biology, 2015 - 2025
- Commitee member - panel Cell Biology Theme, Biochemical Society
- Member, British Society for Cell Biology
Fellowships
- MRC non-Clinical Senior Research Fellow, Medical Research Council, 2001 - 2005
Editorial Boards
- Current Opinion in Cell Biology, Associate Editor
- Scientific Reports, Editorial Board
- Frontiers - Cell and Developmental Biology, Editor
- Peer J, Editor, 2014
- Tissue Barrier, editorial board
- PLoS One
- Small GTPases, Editor
- Biochemical Journal, Editorial Advisory
- Cell Adhesion and migration, editor
- Biology of the Cell, Editor
- Faculty of 1000, editor