1987-1989
Studies at Ruhr-University Bochum, Department of Medicine
1889
"Physikum" in Medicine (First Examination)
1989-1994
Studies at Ruhr-University Bochum and University of Heidelberg Department of Physics
1994
Diploma in Physics (Theoretical (Statistical) Physics)
1997
Ph.D. in Theoretical (Statistical) Physics
1997-2004
at the ETH Zurich
2001
Visiting Fellow at Stanford University, USA (SNF funded)
2002-2003
Scientific Coordinator of the Computational Laboratory of the ETH, Zurich
2004
Marie-Heim-Vögtlin Grant (SNF) at the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, ETH Zurich
August 2004
Habilitation at ETH Zurich (Physics of Terrestrial Systems)
2004
Offer for a Professorship at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
since May 2004
at the Centre of Environmental Research Halle-Leipzig