Born on the 8th of May 1965

Undergraduate studies at the Westfälische-Wilhelms Universität Muenster

1993 Dr. rer. nat. (Univ. of Muenster, K. Cammann)

1991 Research associate (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, R.M. Wightman)

Postdoctoral researcher (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, R.E. Sievers)

Independent research since 1994

1998 Habilitation (Univ. of Muenster)

2001 - 2005 Chair of Analytical Chemistry (Univ. of Twente, Enschede)

11/2005 Chair of Analytical Chemistry (Univ. of Muenster, Muenster)

09/2009 Fresenius prize founded by the Society of German Chemists (GDCh)