Education and Scientific Career:

1978-1984 Primary school Elsfleth

1984-1991 Grammar school Brake (1991: Abitur)

1991-1997 Studies of Chemistry at the University of Oldenburg

1994 Intermediate diploma

1997 Diploma (Organic Chemistry): New Aspects in the Chemistry of Heterocyclic Imines

1997-2000 Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, University of Oldenburg, Germany; Thesis title: Efficient Synthesis of Amino acid Derivatives, Useful for the Preparation of Peptide Nucleic Acids, Unnatural Peptides and Peptide Mimetics, Advisor: Professor Jürgen Martens

2000-2001 Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT Department of Chemistry, Prof. Daniel S. Kemp · Investigations towards the mechanism of protein folding· Synthesis of an on-resin-tunable N-terminal a-Helix template

2001-2006 Habilitand (German equivalent to Assistant Professor) at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Hamburg

2006-2011 W2-Professor of Organic Chemistry at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen

since Oktober 2011 Universität Hamburg

Honours and awards:

2002 Thieme Journal Prize

Dec 2003 Support for innovative teaching from the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie for an integrated lab course

Feb-Apr 2005 Guest professor at University of Toronto (funded by Merck, Prof. Mark Lautens)

May 2005 Call for an Associate Professorship at the Norwegian Technical University Trondheim (NTNU); rejected

Jan 2006 Call for an Associate Professorship (W2) at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Germany)

May 2006 Call for a group leader position at the European Institute of Chemical Biology, Bordeaux; rejected

Dec 2006 Call for the Chair of Organic Chemistry at HW-University Edinburgh; rejected



Memberships:

since 1998 German Chemical Society

2003 Organising committee of the ''12th Young Scientists Meeting for Bioorganic Chemistry''

2004 Organising committee of the ''13th Young Scientists Meeting for Bioorganic Chemistry''

since 2004 Member of the American Chemical Society

since 2004 Member of the European Peptide Society