1976-79 B.Sc. in Chemistry/Biochemistry, Tübingen.
1980-85 Ph.D. in Biophysics, Berkeley, USA.
1986-89 Post-Doc, Weizmann Inst., Rehovot, Israel.
1990-98 Sen. Research Fellow, Caltech, Pasadena, USA.
1999 Lecturer, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
2000-04 Professor, Plymouth Univ., United Kingdom.
2004-23 Professor, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt.
Married, with three grown children, lives in Potsdam, Brandenburg.