1991 – 1996 Diploma in Chemistry (Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany)
1998 – 2003 Ph.D. thesis (ETH Zürich (Schweiz) / TU Darmstadt (Germany)) promoted by a scholarship “Kekulé Stipendium” from FCI and BMBF (Germany)
2003 - 2005 Postdoc at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan) financed by JSPS post-doctoral fellowship (Japan)
since 2005 Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids