1976 - 1985 Grammar School (Holbein-Gymnasium
Augsburg)
Studies in Chemistry
1985 - 1991 Technical University of Munich (Technische
Universität München)
Diploma-Dissertation 1991
"The Phenylsilyl-Group ("Silabenzyl"-Group) as
Substituent in Phosphorus Ylides and Related Compounds"
Diploma work (with Prof.
H. Schmidbaur)
PhD Thesis 1991 - 1993
"Volatile Silyl-Amines, -Hydrazines, und -Hydroxylamines:
Synthesis, Properties and Structural Chemistry"
Doctorate in Chemistry (with Prof.
H. Schmidbaur, Technische Universität München)
Postdoctoral Fellowships
1993 - 1994 Technische Universität München
New precursors for the gas phase deposition of b-silicon carbide (cooperation
with Prof. S. Veprek, Technische Universität München)
1994 - 1996 University of Edinburgh
Marie-Curie-Fellow of the European Union (with D.W.H. Rankin):
- electron diffraction in the gas phase (including
program development)
- low temperature crystallography (with Dr. A.
J. Blake, Edinburgh)
- preparative studies on metal-aminoxides
- computational quantum chemistry
Habilitation 1997 - 2000
- ß-donor-acceptor-interactions in the chemistry
of the p-block elements
- comparative structural chemistry of small molecule
compounds in the solid state and in the gas phase
Awards and fellowships
- Bavarian Habilitation Prize 1996 from the Bavarian
Ministry of Science and Arts
- Marie-Curie-Fellowship of the European Union (1994)
- ADUC-Jahrespreis für Habilitanden 1999
- Heisenberg Fellowship 2000
Offers for positions
- Professor of inorganic an bioinorganic chemistry
at the Technische Universität Berlin, 2001
- Professor of inorganic chemistry at the Westfälische
Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 2002
Visiting Professor
- Visiting Professor at the Technische Universität
Berlin
Present Position
- Professor of inorganic chemistry at the Westfälische
Wilhelms-Universität Münster
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