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          | Education |  | 
        
          | Undergraduate | University of Göttingen (1987-1992) | 
        
          | Degree: | Diplom | 
        
          | Graduate | University of Göttingen (1992-1995) | 
        
          | Degree: | Dr. rer. nat. | 
        
          | Thesis advisor: | Prof. Dr. Armin de Meijere; Dr. Johannes Belzner | 
        
          | Postgraduate | University of British Columbia, Canada (1995-1996) | 
        
          | Position: | Postdoctoral Fellow | 
        
          | Advisor: | Prof. John R. Scheffer | 
        
          | Employment |  | 
        
          | 1997-2002 | University of Würzburg | 
        
          |  | Habilitand (Mentor: Prof.Dr. h.c. Waldemar Adam) | 
        
          | 2001-2003 | University of Würzburg | 
        
          |  | Privatdozent (Lecturer) | 
        
          | 10/2003- | University of Siegen | 
        
          |  | Full Professor | 
        
          | Awards/Fellowships |  | 
        
          | Doctoral scholarship: | Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung | 
        
          | Postdoctoral scholarship: | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft | 
        
          | Scholarships during habilitation: | Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (Liebig-Scholarship) | 
        
          |  | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft | 
        
          | Other Activities: |  | 
        
          |  | Spokesperson of the Center of Micro- and Nanochemistry and –Engineering, University of Siegen (since 2017) | 
        
          |  | Advisor/liaison officer (Vertrauensdozent) of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (since 2013) | 
        
          |  | Board member of the GDCh-Section "Photochemistry" (2014–2022) | 
        
          |  | Chairman of the DECHEMA section "Kinetics and reaction mechanisms" (since 2023) | 
        
          |  | Guest editor in Beilstein J. Org. ChemARKIVOCJ. Phys. Org. Chem. |