2009: Habilitation at University of Potsdam: „Exploiting Self-organization and Functionality of Peptides for Polymer Science“
2002-2008: Group leader of an independent Emmy-Noether Group „Bioorganic-Synthetic Hybrid Polymers as Molecular LEGO® - Bricks“
2000-2001: Postdoc in the group of Krzysztof Matyjaszewski at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (Synthesis of molecular bottle brushes with advanced side chain architectures)
1997-2000: Ph.D.-Thesis in the group of Prof. Walter Heitz in Marburg
(Anionic polymerization of functional monomers)
1993-1996: Graduate student in Chemistry at Phillips University Marburg
1991-1993: Undergraduate student in Chemistry at FU Berlin