- Since 2014: In addition to position at FAU: Director of the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy
- Since 2003: Full professor at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany, Institute of Chemical Reaction Engineering
- 10/1998 – 1/2003: Habilitation, Technical Chemistry, RWTH Aachen
- 04/1998 – 9/1998: Industrial Post-Doc, BP Chemicals, Sunbury on Thames, UK
- 11/1995 – 5/1998: PhD thesis, Technical Chemistry, RWTH Aachen with Prof. Willi Keim
- 4/1991 – 11/1995: Studies in Chemistry at RWTH Aachen, Germany
Selected Awards
- 2010: ERC Advanced Investigator Grant
- 2006: Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz award of the German Science Foundation
- 2001: DECHEMA award of the Max-Buchner-Forschungsstiftung