Born 1964
Dipl. Chem. University of Göttingen, 1989
Dr. rer. nat. University of Göttingen, 1991
Graduate Fellow Chemical Industry Foundation, 1990-1991
Postdoctoral Associate, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, 1991-1992
German Research Foundation (DFG) Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 1993-1994
Research Associate, University of Karlsruhe, 1995-1998
Habilitation in Physical Chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe, 1999
Lecturer Award of the Chemical Industry Foundation, 2000
Head of the BCD group (C3), Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, 1998 - 2003
Visiting Professor, Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, 2003 - 2004
Full Professor (PR1), Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, 2004
Full Professor (C4) of Physical Chemistry, University of Bonn, since 2004
Chairman of the Chemistry Department, University of Bonn, 2007 - 2009
Managing Director, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Bonn, since 2018
Founding Director of the Clausius-Institute, University of Bonn, 2022

Spokesperson of the DFG Collaborative Research Center SFB 813 "Chemistry at Spin Centers", 2011 - 2017
Founding Spokesperson of the Bonn International Graduate School of Chemistry (BIGS-Chemistry), 2016
Co-Spokesperson of the Transdisciplinary Research Area "Matter", University of Bonn, since 2016
Elected Member of the Review Board "Physical Chemistry", German Research Foundation, 2016 - 2023
Member of the Emmy Noether Panel, German Research Foundation, since 2020
Senator (Mathematics and Natural Sciences) of the University of Bonn, 2020 - 2022

Member of the German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, GDCh)
Member of the German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, DPG)
Member of the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry (Dt. Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie)