1983 - 1989 Studies at the Technische Universität München; Diploma thesis: "The Discovery of X-Ray Structure Analysis and Structural Chemistry of New Organorhenium Compounds" (Prof. Dr. Drs. h.c. mult. W. A. Herrmann)

1989 - 1992 Ph.D. research and thesis: "Volatile Lanthanide Complexes for Chemical Vapor Deposition", Technische Universität München (Prof. Dr. Drs. h.c. mult. W. A. Herrmann)

1993 - 1994 Postdoctoral Associate, University of California at Irvine (Prof. Dr. W. J. Evans), DFG-fellowship

1994 - 2000 Habilitation, research,  Universität Stuttgart (Prof. Dr.-Ing. J. Weitkamp, DFG-fellowship) and Technische Universität München (Prof. Dr. Drs. h.c. mult. W. A. Herrmann); Thesis: "Immobilization of Lanthanide Complexes on Mesoporous Silica" 

02/2001 - 09/2002 Privatdozent, Technische Universität München

2001 Karl-Ziegler fellowship

10/2002 - 12/2004 Oberassistent (C2), Technische Universität München

01/2005 - 06/2006 senior scientist, Universitetet i Bergen

03/2005 visiting professor, University of Osaka

07/2006 - 09/2008 professor, Universitetet i Bergen

10/2008- 11/2011 professor II, Universitetet i Bergensince 10/2008professor, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

2012 Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

Nanostructured Materials and Catalysts via SOMC@PMS: periodic mesoporous oxides ..... surface organometallic chemistry ..... nanostructured catalysts ..... mesozymes ..... molecular factories ..... soft chemistry

Organolanthanide Chemistry: metallocenes ..... halfsandwich complexes ..... postmetallocenes ..... multicomponent Ziegler-Natta catalysts ..... olefin polymerization