Educational background:
2002: Habilitation in Physical Chemistry ( Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen (Germany))
1989: Dr. rer. nat. – Physics (University of Ulm (Germany))
1985: Diploma – Physics (University of Ulm (Germany))
Employment history:
since 2002: Jointly appointed Full Professor for Experimental Physics at the RWTH-Aachen (Germany)
since 2001: Director at the Institute of Thin Films and Interfaces (now Biological Information Processing (IBI) heading the unit IBI-3 "Bioelectronics", Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany)
1994-2001: Group leader at Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Mainz, Germany
1992-1994: Postdoctoral Fellow, Frontier Researcher at Laboratory for Exotic Nano-Materials, Frontier Research Program, RIKEN, Japan
1990-1992: Engineer (Development of Power Transistors) at Robert Bosch GmbH, Reutlingen, Germany
Awards, Calls, and Committes
since 2018: Visiting Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
since 2013: Member of the scientific advisory board, NTT Basic Research Lab., Japan
since 2012: Guest Professorship, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
1999-2003: Scientific advisor, New Frontier Research Program, RIKEN, Japan
2001: Call to C4-professorship IPHT and Jena University
1999: Colloquia Academica – Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz
1999: Reimund-Stadler-Preis – Habilitationspreis der Fachgruppe Makromolekulare Chemie, GDCh