Oct. 1990 - Febr. 1996 Study on physics at Technische Universität Braunschweig Diploma thesis: "Photoconductivity of Si/Ge buffers, multiquantum wells and superlattices"
since Febr. 1996 Employment as research associate at the Institute of Semiconductor Physics and Optics, since 2005: Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, Technische Universität Braunschweig
Nov. 2000 Defense of PhD thesis: "Magnetic Properties of MnBi, MnPt3, and CrPt3 Thin Films for Magneto-optical Data Storage"
June 2010 venia legendi in experimental physics Habilitation thesis: "The Role of Correlations for the Electronic Structure of the System Fe1-xCoxSi"