Scientific Staff Member at the Institue of Organic Chemistry of the Darmstadt University of Technology

Substitute Professorship for Organic Chemistry at the University of Leipzig

Substitute Professorship for Organic Chemistry at the Karl-Ruprecht University of Heidelberg

Self-employed Research Assistant and Consultant for the MOLCAD GmbH, a research and development organisation in cooperation with the Darmstadt University of Technology (http://www.molcad.de)

Habilitation at the Darmstadt University of Technology on "Flexible and Rigid Cyclooligosaccharides: Synthesis, Structures, and Properties"

Habilitation Lecture on 15. June 2004.

Postdoc with Prof. Dr. K. B. Sharpless, The Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, California, on "Computersimulations on the Mechanism of Osmium-Catalyzed Reactions"

Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Work with Prof. Dr. F. W. Lichtenthaler on "Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Saccharides"

Dr.-Ing. in Chemistry (summa cum laude), Darmstadt University of Technology

Doctoral Fellowship of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie

Work with Prof. Dr. W. F. van Gunsteren at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, Switzerland, on "Molecular-Dynamics of Sucrose in Aqueous Solution"

Dissertation (with Prof. Dr. F. W. Lichtenthaler) on "Computersimulation of Chemical and Biological Properties of Saccharides: Sucrose, Fructose, Cyclodextrins, and Starch"

Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker

American Chemical Society

Member of the Editorial Board of Carbohydrate Research