| January 15, 1959 | Date of birth |
| 1977 - 1983 | majored in Chemistry at the Philipps-Universitaet in Marburg/Germany |
| 1978/79 | mandatory military service in Goettingen/Germany |
| 1987 | Ph.D. in Stuttgart/Germany under the supervision of Prof. Dr. G. Becker |
| 1987/88 | postdoctoral research year completed under the supervision of Prof. Dr. R. T. Paine at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM/USA |
| 1994 | Habilitation at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the University Stuttgart |
| 1996-2004 | tenure track professor position at the LMU Munich/Germany |
| 1999 | teaching excellence award from the State of Bavaria |
| 2001-2004 | vice president of the LMU Munich/Germany |
| since 2004 | chair of inorganic chemistry at the University Jena |
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