High School: 1975 to 1984 at Ratsgymnasium in Gladbeck

Studies: 1984 to 1989, Chemistry at Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Diploma: Chair of Physical Chemistry II, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, June 1989, "Systematic investigation of the global phase behavior of binary fluid mixtures based on the Carnahan-Starling-Redlich-Kwong equation of state"

PhD: Chair of Physical Chemistry II, Ruhr-University Bochum, July 1992, "Development of an equation of state for fluid pure substances considering the near-critical region"

Post Doc: School of Chemical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1/1993 to 5/1995, BASF scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation

Research stay: Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 7/1995 to 12/1995, habilitation fellowship from the DFG

Habilitation: 1999, Physical Chemistry, University of Cologne

Deputy professorship: WS 2009/2010, Physical Chemistry, University of Bremen

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