| Studies: | Chemistry and Philosophy at Univs. of Braunschweig and Göttingen | 1978 - 1983 |
| Graduation: | Graduation: | 1983 |
| Zivildienst: | Universitätsklinikum Göttingen | 1983 - 1985 |
| Dissertation: | Dr. rer. nat. (Universität Göttingen, Prof. U. Klingebiel) | 1985 - 1987 |
| Title: | Lithiumfluorosilylamine - from the tricycle to the iminosilane | |
| Post-Docs: | Prof. P. von Ragué Schleyer, Erlangen | 1989 |
| Dr. R. Snaith und Dr. P. R. Raithby, Cambridge, England | 1991 |
| Habilitation: | venia legendi in Inorganic Chemistry (University of Göttingen, Prof. G. M. Sheldrick) | 1987 - 1993 |
| Title: | Syntheses and structural determination of reactive and thermally labile alkali metalorganic intermediates |
| 1995 | Oberassistent at the University of Göttingen (C1) |
| 1996 - 2005 | Professor at the University of Würzburg(C3) |
| 2003 - 2004 | Chairman of the Diplomprüfungsausschuss at the University of Würzburg |
| 2004 | Offer of a full professorship at the University of Göttingen |
| since 2005 | Full Professor at the University of Göttingen (W3) |
| since 2008 | Executive board of the Universitätsbund Göttingen and Advisory board of the science lab at the Friedrich-König-Gymnasium, Würzburg |
| 2007 - 2009 | Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Göttingen |
| 2009 - 2011 | Dean of Research of the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Göttingen |
| 2009 - 2014 | Steering committee and scientific advisory board of the Göttingen XLAB |
| 2012 - 2015 | Dean of Studies of the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Göttingen |
| since 2013 | Senator of the University of Göttingen |
| 1987 | Richard-Zsigmondy award of the faculty of chemistry at Göttingen for the best PhD thesis of the year |
| 1988 | Studienabschlussstipendium of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie |
| 2003 | Organization of the ALKCHEM-3: The third international conference on the chemistry of the alkali and alkaline earth metals in Würzburg |
| 2004 | Appointment to the advisory board of the Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B - A Journal of Chemical Science |
| 2005 - 2011 | Initiator and coordinator of the DFG priority program 1178. Experimental charge density determination as the key to understand chemical interactions |
| 2005 | Arfvedson-Schlenk award of the GDCh and the CHEMETALL on mayor achievements in the area of lithium chemistry |
| 2007 | Organisation of the European Bruker Users' Meeting on Charge Density Determination at Göttingen |
| 2007 | Lecturer of the year 2007 of the Molecular Medicine course at Göttingen |
| 2009, 2011, 2013 | Best lecturer of the faculty awarded by the chemistry students at Göttingen |
| 2010 | Foundation of the Centre of Materials Crystallography, funded by the DNRF and based at Aarhus, Denmark (www.cmc.chem.au.dk)Centre for Materials Crystallography |
| 2011 | Award of the Stiftungsrat der Universität Göttingen for exceptional performance in teaching by establishing the Virtual Laboratory |
| 2015 | Ars legendi faculty award in mathematics and natural sciences of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft and the Conference of University Presidents for excellence in university teaching |
| 2015 | Du Pont visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India |
