Employment
2003 - current Project leader at the Max-Born-Institute Berlin. Investigation of photochemical elementary reactions in biologically relevant systems.
1999 - 2003 Visiting Fellow at the Femtosecond Research Program in the National Research Council Canada. Investigation of reaction dynamics in isolated molecules (laboratory of Dr. Albert Stolow).
1996 - 1999 Teaching assistant at the ETH Zürich.
Education
1996 - 1999 PhD thesis in the Department of Organic Chemistry, ETH Zürich on the subject: 'Time Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Allyl Radical' (Supervisor Prof. Peter Chen).
1994 Participation in the Karin Kupcinet School at the Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Rehovot, Israel. Research on the treatment of schizophrenia with immuno-suppressants (group of M. Shinitzki).
1991 - 1995 Study of chemistry at the ETH Zürich with specialization in organic and biological chemistry. Graduation with the degree "Diplom der Chemie". Diploma thesis on the subject: '9,10-Dehydroanthracene as Potential Precursor for the Anthracene-9,10-biradical' (Supervisor Prof. Peter Chen).
1982 - 1991 High school Wildermuth-Gymnasium Tübingen, Germany.
Professional affiliations
o Member of the American Chemical Society
o Member of the German Chemical Society
o Member of the German Physical Society
Academic degrees
o Ph.D. in chemistry from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich
o Diploma in chemistry from the ETH Zürich