| 1980 ‒ 1986 | Diploma in physics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen |
| 1986 ‒ 1989 | PhD (Physics), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. D. Harder |
| 1989 ‒ 1990 | Postdoc, Institut für Medizinische Physik und Biophysik, Universität Göttingen |
| 1990 ‒ 1994 | Research Associate and Team Leader of the TEM group, Labor für Oberflächen- und Struktur-Analyse, IBM Microelectronics, Sindelfingen |
| 1994 ‒ 1996 | Research Associate, IBM Research Division, Zürich Research Laboratory, CH |
| 1996 ‒ 2003 | Head of Department, Labor für Analytik & Technologie Projekte, IBM Storage Technology Division, Mainz |
| 2003 ‒ 2004 | Program manager “Basisentwicklung von Beschleunigungssensorik der 3. Generation”, Robert Bosch GmbH, Reutlingen |
| 2004 ‒ 2011 | Full Professor “Micro and Nano Scale Engineering”, Head of MNSE Section, TU Eindhoven, NL |
| 2007 ‒ 2011 | Program Manager, Holst Center TNO, Eindhoven, NL |
| since 2012 | Director of the Institut für Mikrotechnik, Technische Universität Braunschweig |
| 2019 - 2021 | Dean of the Fakultät für Maschinenbau, Technische Universität Braunschweig |
| 2004 ‒ 2008 | Member of the Management Board of “MicroNed” (Dutch consortium for micro-technological research) |
| 2012 ‒ today | Member of the Scientific Board of AMA-Fachverband für Sensorik e.V |
| Commissioner for the dual-degree program between TU Braunschweig and UT Compiègne as part of the Deutsch-Französische Hochschule (DFH) | |
| Member of the Management Board of the “Zentrum für Pharmaverfahrenstechnik der TU Braunschweig” since its foundation | |
| 2014 ‒ today | Speaker of the doctoral program “Processing of Poorly Soluble Drugs at Small Scale” at the PVZ (with H. Bunjes) |
