| since 2009 |
Honorary Professor for Inorganic Chemistry at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal |
| since 2008 |
Head of department Electron Microscopy at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung |
| since 1998 |
Head of department Chemical Crystallography at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung |
| 1997 |
Visiting Professor at the University of LaPlata (Argentina) |
| 1993 - 1997 |
Senior Research Officer, Durham University (Großbritannien) |
| 1991 - 1992 |
Post-Doc Queen-Mary-College London and University of Cardiff (M. B. Hursthouse) |
| 1990 |
Doctorate in Crystallography (P. Luger, FU-Berlin) |
| 1988 |
Sabbatical at the University of Pittsburgh (G. A. Jeffrey) |
| 1984 - 1988 |
Studies for a degree in Chemistry at the FU-Berlin |
| 1964 |
Born in Berlin |