Chemistry, University of Bonn, Diploma
(supervised by Prof. Dr. Martin Jansen)

Habilitation: Venia legendi in Inorganic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen
(mentored by Prof. Dr. Richard Dronskowski)

Doctorate: Inorganic Chemistry, University of Bonn
(supervised by Prof. Dr. Martin Jansen)

W3-Professorship offered at Leibniz-University at Hannover, declined

W3-Professorship for Inorganic Chemistry, KIT

W3-Professorship offered at Humboldt-University at Berlin, declined

Full-Professorship offered at University of Zürich, Switzerland, declined

C4-Professorship offered at University of Ulm, declined

C4-Professorship for Inorganic Chemistry, TH Karlsruhe

C4-Professorship offered at University of Konstanz, declined

Research Scientist and, from 2001, Senior Scientist at Philips Research Laboratories, Aachen / Eindhoven, Germany / The Netherlands

Postdoctoral Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany

Elected member of DFG Review Board

Member of the Editorial Board of “Journal of Materials Chemistry B”

Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

Head of the Laboratory for Electron Microscopy (commisonary)

Member of the “Alfred-Stock-Award” and “Wilhelm-Klemm-Award” Selection Committee of the GDCh

Member of ERC Review Board

Member of the Editorial Board of “Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgemeine Chemie”

Spokesperson of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry

Member of the Editorial Board of “Nanoscale”

Member of the Editorial Board (Kuratorium) of “Angewandte Chemie“

Vice Dean of the Faculty for Chemistry and Life Sciences

Board member of the “Center of Functional Nanostructures (CFN)” of the DFG

Friedrich-Wilhelm-Award of the RWTH Aachen

H.C. Starck-Award of the GDCh