Curriculum Vitae

Study of chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany (1982-1988)
Diploma thesis "Preparation of [1.1.1]Bicyclopentanes" in the group of Prof. G. Szeimies (Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich)
Ph.D. thesis "Synthesis and shape of ladder type polymers" under the supervision of Profs. A.-D. Schlüter and G. Wegner at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany (1988-1991)
Postdoctoral studies on photoimageable non-linear optical polymers for second harmonic generation at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., USA, in the group of Prof. J. M. J. Fréchet and at Kodak Research Laboratories, Rochester, N.Y., USA (1991-1993)
Research at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany (1993-2002)
1. rigid rod-like main chain polymers with rigidly attached NLO-chromophores
2. catenanes und polycatenanes
3. monodisperse, functionalised oligo(para-phenyleneethynylene)s
4. monodisperse polymers at the air-water-interface in collaboration with Prof. M. Lahav (Weizmann-Institute in Rehovot, Israel)
Habilitation in Organic Chemistry at the Free University of Berlin, Germany (2001);
Habilitation thesis "Building blocks for special molecular structures: catenanes and rigid rods"
Privatdozent at the Free University of Berlin, Germany (2002-2003)
Visiting professor of chemistry at the International University Bremen (2003)
Since summer 2003 Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University Bielefeld

Organic chemistry and polymer chemistry at the Free University Berlin, Germany (1998-2002)
Summer-schools of the International Max-Planck-Research School for Polymer Materials Science:
"Polymer Characterization" (2000) and "Polymer Synthesis" (2001)
Bioorganic Chemistry at the International University Bremen
Organic and polymer chemistry at the University Bielefeld