Professional career
Spokesman of the Advanced Field on “Polymer and Colloid Science” at the University of Bayreuth
Director of the University of Bayreuth Graduate School
Spokesman of the Elite Study Program in Macromolecular Science
Director of the Bayreuth Institute of Macromolecular Research (BIMF)
Founding member of the Bayreuth Center for Colloids and Interfaces (BZKG)
Vice President Research and Technology Transfer, University of Bayreuth
Chairman Collaborative Research Center 481 German Research Foundation „Complex macromolecular and hybrid systems in internal and external fields“
Vice President Education and Academic Affairs, University of Bayreuth
Full Professor, Chair of Macromolecular Chemistry I, University of Bayreuth 1994 Associate (tenured) Professor of Materials, Materials Department, University of California at Santa Barbara, California, USA
Visiting Professor Charles Sadron Institute (CNRS), Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg
Professoral thesis („Habilitation“) in Macromolecular Chemistry, Philipps-University Marburg
Research and Teaching Associate , Philipps-University Marburg, Physical Chemistry Department, Marburg, Germany
Researcher with DuPont, Experimental Station, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
Education
Graduation in Polymer Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany, with Prof. Helmut Ringsdorf
University of Lowell, Massachusetts, research stay with Prof. Alex Blumstein and Professor Rita Blumstein
Diploma degree in Chemistry („Diplom“) Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
Exchange Student in Polymer Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland
