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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