1980 - 1985

Study of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics at Kharkov-State-University, Ukraine

1985 - 1990

PhD Student at the Institute of Mechanics, Academy of Science of GDR, Berlin/Chemnitz

1990

PhD in Geohydrodynamics

1990 - 1993

PostDoc at Geological Survey of Lower Saxony, Hannover

1994 - 1999

Senior Scientist at Institute of Fluid Mechanics, University of Hannover

1996

Habilitation in Geohydrology at Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Hannover

1999 - 2001

Assistant Professor (C2) at Institute of Fluid Mechanics, University of Hannover

2001 - 2004

Professor (C3) for Geohydrology and Hydroinformatics at Tübingen University

2001 - 2007

Director of int. Master course "Applied Environmental Geoscience , Tübingen University

2004

Call to a W3 Professorship and Chair of Fluid Mechanics and Environmental Physics, Leibniz University of Hannover

2004 - 2007

Professor for GeoSystemsResearch at Tübingen University

since 2007

Professor for Applied Environmental System Analysis at Technical University of Dresden and Head of the Department Environmental Informatics with the UFZ

since 2007

Speaker / Think-Tank of the Helmholtz Graduate School HIGRADE

2011

Call as Technical Director to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), US

1990

Award for outstanding PhD thesis, Academy of Science of GDR

since 2013

Editor-in-Chief of Journal, Geothermal Energy

since 2014

Editor-in-Chief of Journal, Environmental Earth Sciences

2015

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) President's International Fellowship (PIFI)