- Oct 2001
Appointed C3 Professor for ‘Molecular Physiology of Plants’, Institute for Botany, Dept. of Biology, at the WWU Muenster.
- May 2001
Habilitation for Plant Physiology at the University of Osnabrueck.
- 1998 – 2000
DFG Habilitation stipend.
- 1992 -1998
Assistant professor (C1), Section Plant Physiology (Prof. Dr. Renate Scheibe), Dept. of Biology at the University of Osnabrueck. DFG grants for G6PDH and GNTI projects.
- 1989 - 1991
Postdoctoral fellow in the group of Prof. Dr. Maarten J. Chrispeels, Dept. of Biology, University of California at San Diego (USA). DAAD and DFG stipends.
- Sept. 1989
Dissertation in the Dept. of Biology at the Free University (FU) Berlin.
- 1985 – 1989
PhD student under supervision of Prof. Dr. Lothar Willmitzer at the Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, and at the "Institut fuer Genbiologische Forschung" (IGF) Berlin GmbH.
- June 1985
Final thesis under supervision of Prof. Dr. Ruth Ehring, Institute for Genetics.
- 1981 – 1985
Main studies of Biology in Plant Physiology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Genetics.
- 1979 – 1981
Basic studies of Biology at the Albertus-Magnus University, Cologne.