Curriculum Vitae

High school: 1975 - 1984 Ratsgymnasium in Gladbeck, Germany

Study: 1984 - 1989, Chemistry at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Diploma thesis: Physical Chemistry II, Ruhr University Bochum, June 1989, "Systematic investigation of the global phase behavior of binary fluid mixtures using the Carnahan-Starling-Redlich-Kwong equation of state”

Doctoral Thesis: Physical Chemistry II, Ruhr University, July 1992, "Development of an equation of state for pure fluids considering the near critical region”

Post Doc: School of Chemical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1/1993 - 5/1995, BASF-fellowship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)

Research stay: Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley und Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 7/1995 - 12/1995, Fellowship of the German Research Fundation DFG

Habilitation: 1999, Physical Chemistry, University of Cologne, Germany

Substitute Professorship: WS 2009/2010, Physical Chemistry, Universität Bremen, Germany

Priv. Doz.: since 2000, Physical Chemistry, Department for Chemistry, University of Cologne