Education
1989 Diploma in Chemistry, University of Mainz
1992 PhD at MPI for Polymer Research/University of Mainz
1999 Habilitation at MPI for Colloid and Interface Science/University of Potsdam
Employment
1992 - 1993 | Post-doctoral Fellow at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, U.S.A. |
1993 - 1999 | Staff Scientist at MPI for Colloid and Interface Science, Potsdam. |
2000 - 2010 | Professor (C4/W3), Physical Chemistry, University of Hamburg. |
2010 - 2017 | Professor (W3), Physical Chemistry, University of Bayreuth. |
2017 - | Director JCNS-1, Forschungszentrum Jülich |
2017 - | Professor (W3), Physical Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University |
2018 – 2020 | Director, Maier-Leibnitz-Zentrum (MLZ), Garching |
2018 - | Director JCNS-4 at Forschungszentrum Jülich (Garching outstation) |
Selected Awards and Services
2010 | Honorary Guest Professor, University of Melbourne |
2012 | ERC Advanced Grant |
2014 – 2023 | Associate Editor, Macromolecules |
2015 | ERC Proof-of-Concept Grant |
2015/16 | Honorary Guest Professor, University of New South Wales, Sydney |
2016 - 2020 | Senate, German Science Foundation (DFG) |
2017 - | Vice-Chair, Board of Trustees of DWI Leibniz Institute, Aachen |
2024 | Chair of Associates, Institute-Laue-Langevin, Grenoble |
2024 - | Chemistry Review Board, German Science Foundation (DFG) |