2017 - 2018:Heising Simons Fellow at the Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute in Berkeley.
2013 - : Managing Director of the Intitute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, TU Braunschweig, Deutschland.
04/2007 - : University Professor for biophysical chemistry, University of Braunschweig, Germany and Research group leader, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry and University of Göttingen, Germany.
04/2003 - 04/2007: Assistant Professor for biophysical chemistry, University of Braunschweig, Germany and Emmy-Noether Research group leader, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry and University of Göttingen, Germany.
01/2001 - 03/2003: Head of Department Optics Detection, DIREVO Biotech AG, Cologne, Germany.
01/1999 - 01/2001: Postdoc (Prof. Dr. G.R. Fleming), University of California at Berkeley, USA.
08/1998 - 12/1998: Postdoc (Prof. Dr. M. Orrit), CNRS Bordeaux, France.
02/1996 - 07/1998: Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry (Prof. Dr. J. Troe), Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry and University of Göttingen, Germany.
02/1994 - 02/1996: Diploma Degree in Chemistry (Prof. Dr. J. Troe), Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry and University of Göttingen, Germany.
11/1991 - 02/1994: Studies of Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
