| 1958 |
born
in Stuttgart |
| 1965-1977 |
Highschool education
in Göttingen |
| 1977-1978 |
Military service |
| 1978-1984 |
studies in Physics
at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen |
| 1982-1983 |
Diploma thesis at the Max-Planck-Institut for Biophysical Chemistry
with Dr. K. H. Grellmann und Prof. A. Weller, Dept. Spectroskopy,
Thema "Investigations on Tunnel Effects in Hydrogen Rearrangements" |
| 1984 |
Diploma in Physics |
| 1984-1986 |
PhD work at the same Institute, "Investigations on Isotope- and
Tunneleffects in the Enol-Keto-Rearrangement of Aromatic Ketones" |
| 1987 |
PhD |
| 1987-1988 |
Reasearch fellowship of the German Science Foundation (DFG) with Prof.
M. A. El-Sayed at the University of California Los Angeles on "Catalytic
Processes on the Molecular Level" |
| 1988-1994 |
Researcher at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute in Berlin in the Dept.
of Photochemistry with Prof. A. Henglein working on Structure and
Photophysics of Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals |
| 1994-2005 |
Senior Researcher at the Institute for Physical Chemistry, University
of Hamburg in the group of Prof. H. Weller |
| 1999 |
Habilitation for Physical Chemistry, "Structure and Photophysics
of Nanocrystalline Semiconductor Particles" |
| 2000 |
venia legendi for Physical Chemistry |
| 2005 |
Chair for Physical Chemistry/Electrochemistry, TU Dresden |