10/1995 - 09/2000 Undergraduate Studies and Diploma Degree in Chemistry (Regensburg University)

11/2000 - 08/2004 PhD studies (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Oliver Reiser, Regensburg University): “Asymmetric Synthesis of Chiral-at-Metal Complexes with Pentadentate Bis(oxazoline) Ligands”

02/2005 - 02/2008 Postdoctoral studies (Advisor: Prof. Kenneth N. Raymond, University of California Berkeley, USA)

03/2008 - 04/2009 Liebig Young Investigator (Independent Research Group Leader) at Ruhr-University Bochum

05/2009 - 03/2014 Emmy Noether Young Investigator (Independent Research Group Leader) at Ruhr-University Bochum

04/2014 - 09/2014 Interim acting professor for “Bioinorganic Chemistry” at the Technical University of Dortmund

10/2014 - 02/2015 Independent Research Group Leader (Heisenberg Fellowship) at the Ruhr-University Bochum

since 03/2015        Professor for Translational Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Tübingen