1987 - 1992 Study of chemistry (focus: Theoretical and Physical Chemistry) at University of Leipzig.
1992 - 1997 PhD student, University of Leipzig, X-ray and Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Surface Analysis Title of the Thesis (german): “Characterization of chemically modified InP surfaces”, supervisor: Prof. Th. Chassé
since 2003 permanent scientific coworker (senior scientist) at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, group "Physical Chemistry of Condensed Matter"
April 2011 Habilitation (venia legendi, "permission for lecturing") in Physical Chemistry
October 2016 "außerplanmäßiger Professor" (Adjunct Professor)
Professional Activities
Referee for more than 20 scientific journals
since 2012: Member of the Scientific Selection Panel, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
since 2013: Member of the International Users' Committee, Synchrotron light source ANKA, Karlsruhe