| since Oct 17 | Professor of Physical Chemistry at Bielefeld University, Germany. | 
| Oct 09 – Sept 17 | Professor at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Mainz University, Germany. | 
| Jul 05 – Sept 09 | Head of an Emmy Noether research group at the Osnabrück University, Germany. | 
| Jan 03 – Jun 05 | Research Associate at BASF Polymer Physics, Ludwigshafen, Germany. | 
| Dec 02 | Defence of the PhD thesis entitled "Molecular self-assembly and chiral recognition: Biologically relevant molecules on metal surfaces". | 
| Oct 99 – Dec 02 | PhD student in physics in the group of Flemming Besenbacher at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. | 
| Sept 99 | Diploma degree in physics at the Free University Berlin, Germany. | 
| Aug 98 – Jun 99 | Diploma thesis in physics in the group of Karl-Heinz Rieder. "Laterale Manipulation von Diiodbenzol auf Cu(111) mit dem Tieftemperatur-Rastertunnelmikroskop".  | 
		
| Feb 98 – Jun 98 | Abroad studies at the Napier University of Edinburgh, UK. Bachelor project "Rational functions in NMR lineshape fitting".  | 
		
| Jun 95 – Sept 99 | Stipend of the Evangelischs Studienwerk Villigst. | 
| Oct 94 – Sept 99 | Study of Physics at the Free University Berlin, Germany. |