| 2008 | Professor for Inorganic Chemistry, TU Dortmund University |
| 2008 | Six-month Substitute Professorship for Inorganic Chemistry, University Würzburg |
| 2006 | Six-month Substitute of the Chair for Inorganic and Element Organic Chemistry at the University of Rostock |
| 2002 | Invited by Prof. B. Keppler at the University of Vienna as Visiting Professor for Bioinorganic Chemistry |
| 1998 | Appointment as Lecturer (Privatdozent) at the University of Würzburg |
| 1997 | Awarded with a DFG-Heisenberg Fellowship |
| 1995 | Habilitation on 1,3-dilithiated organoelement compounds with main group elements and organoelement ring systems and appointment as Lecturer (Privatdozent) at the University of Saarbrücken |
| 1992-1995 | Habilitation in the group of Prof. M. Veith at the University of Saarbrücken with a DFG-Fellowship |
| 1990-1991 | Postdoc (polysilazan-polymers and SiC/SiN-ceramics) at the MIT Cambridge (USA) with Prof. D. Seyferth as a DFG-fellow |
| 1990 | PhD studies with Prof. R. Tacke on biologically active organosilanes, metabolism of organosilicon- and organogermanium compounds as well as first studies on zwitterionic pentacoordinated silicon compounds |
| 1982-1990 | Undergraduate Studies of Chemistry at Universities of Braunschweig and Karlsruhe |
| May 14, 1963 | Born in Celle (Germany) |
