Marital status

married, two children

Date of birth

12.11.1947

Place of birth

Wanzleben/Börde - Germany

1966 - 1971

Study of chemistry at Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald

1971 - 1974

Postgraduate at Institute for Physical Chemistry in Berlin (Academy of Sciences). Supervisor: G. Öhlmann

1976

PhD thesis on Heterogeneous Catalysis in Berlin (Academy of Sciences)

1976

Research stay (3 month) at Institute for Chemical Physics, Academy of Sciences (O. V. Krylov) in Moscow/Soviet Union

1987

Research stay (3 month) at University of Bologna/Italy, Department of Industrial Chemistry (F. Trifiro)

1989

Habilitation (Dr. sc.) in Physical Chemistry in Berlin

1989

Research stay (1 month) at National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) in Pune/India (D. Ratnasamy)

1974 - 1985

Research fellow at the Institute for Physical Chemistry, Department Catalysis/Kinetics, Academy of Sciences, Berlin

1985 - 1988

Assistant Group Leader „Multifunctional Catalysts“ at the Insitute

1987 - 1990

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute

1989 - 1991

Assistant Department Leader, Department „Catalysis/Kinetics“

1992 - 1993

Project Leader at „Centre of Heterogeneous Catalysis“, Berlin

1994 - 2006

Research fellow and Project Leader at the Instiute for Applied Chemistry (ACA) and at the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT) (since 2006)

2003 - 2005

Correspondent of Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Section „News Brief“