| 1974 | born in Erlangen |
| 1993 | High school degree at the Ehrenbürg-Gymnasium Forchheim, Germany |
| 1993-1997 | Undergraduate and graduate studies of chemistry at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany |
| 1997-2000 | PhD thesis at the WWU Münster under supervision of Prof. Dr. Gerhard Erker, "Aminosäurefunktionalisierte Cyclopentadienyl-(Gruppe 4) und (Gruppe 8)-Metallkomplexe: Darstellung und Reaktivität" |
| 2001-2003 | Postdoc at Yale University, USA, in the group of Prof. John F. Hartwig |
| 2003-2008 | Habilitandin at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, Heidelberg University, Germany, under mentorship of Prof. Dr. Peter Hofmann |
summer and
winter term 2007/08 | Substitute professor at the Institute for Organic Chemistry at the Universität Stuttgart |
12/2008 -
02/2009 | Privatdozentin at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, Heidelberg University,Germany |
| 05/2009 and 03/2011 | Visiting professor at the Institut de Chimie Moléculaire de l'Université de Bourgogne (ICMUB), Djion, France. |
02/2009 -
09/2009 | W3-Professorship at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, Heidelberg University, Germany |
| since 10/2009 | W3-Professorship at the Institut of Inorganic Chemistry of the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen |
