Curriculum Vitae
| since 2004 | Full Professor (C4) of Chemistry at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Regensburg (Germany) |
| 1996 - 2004 | Associate Professor (C3) of Chemistry at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe (Germany) |
| 1993 - 1996 | Heisenberg-Fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the University of Karlsruhe |
| 1992 - 1993 | Guest professor at the Department of Chemistry, Indiana University Bloomington (USA) (Prof. Dr. M. H. Chisholm), supportet by a Feodor-Lynen-Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation |
| 1992 | Habilitation at the University of Halle-Wittenberg topic: polyphosphorous compounds |
| 1990 - 1991 | Visiting Fellow (DAAD) at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kohlenforschung in Muehlheim/Ruhr (Prof. Dr. G. Wilke) research area: catalysis |
| 1983 - 1992 | Associate Scientist at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Halle-Wittenberg |
| 1985 - 1986 | Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academyof Science, Novosibirsk (Russia) (Prof. Dr. V. E. Federov) area: Solid State Chemistry |
| 1980-1983 | Doctoral thesis at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Halle-Wittenberg 1983 Dr. rer. nat (summa cum laude), area: Sn(II)-Chemistry |
| 1975 - 1980 | Study of Chemistry at the University of Halle-Wittenberg 1980 Diploma thesis |
| 1955 | Born in Jüterbog |
Functions
| since 2019 | Elected board member of the Division "Phosphorchemie" of the GDCh |
| 2015-2018 | Chairman of the Wöhler-Vereinigung (Inorganic Division of the GDCh) |
| since 2015 | Editorial Advisory Board member of "Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgmeine Chemie" |
| since 2014 | Selection panel member of the Alfred-Stock Memorial Award and the Wilhelm-Klemm Award of the GDCh |
| since 2013 | Editorial Advisory Board member of "Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers" (RSC-CCS Journal) |
| since 2012 | Elected member of the DFG (German Research Foundation) Review Board on molecular chemistry |
| 2011-2018 | Elected board member of the Wöhlervereinigung (Inorganic Division of the GDCh) |
| since 2010 | Associate Editor of the RSC journal "Chemical Communications" |
| since 2009 | Member of the International Advisory Board of IRIS (International Symposium on Inorganic Ring Systems) |
| 2007-2009 | Editorial Advisory Board member of "Organometallics" |
| since 2006 | Editorial Advisory Board member of "Phosphorus, Sulfur and Silicon and the Related Elements" |
Awards
| 2019 | Egon-Wiberg-Lecturer, Department of Chemistry Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Germany) |
| 28.01.2019 | Honory Doctor of the St. Petersburg State University (Russia) |
| 2019 | Neil Bartlett memorial Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley (USA) |
| since 2018 | Ordinary Member of the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina |
| 2017 | International Arbuzovs Price in field of organophosphorus compounds (awarded by the president of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia) |
| 2017 | Margot-Becke lecture, University of Heidelberg (Germany) |
| since 2016 | Regular member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences |
| since 2016 | Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) |
| 2015-2018 | Chairman of the Wöhler-Vereinigung (Inorganic Division of the GDCh) |
| since 2015 | Regular member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts |
| since 2015 | Editorial Advisory Board member of "Zeitschrift für Anorganische und Allgmeine Chemie" |
| since 2014 | Selection panel member of the Alfred-Stock Memorial Award and the Wilhelm-Klemm Award of the GDCh |
| 2013 | European Research Council Advance Grant: ERC-2013-ADG 339072 |
| since 2013 | Editorial Advisory Board member of "Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers" (RSC-CCS Journal) |
| 2013 | Wilhelm-Klemm-Award of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) |
| 2012 | Horst-Dietrich-Hardt-Award of the University des Saarlandes (Germany) |
| 2012 | Honorary Doctorate of the Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Sibirian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk |
| 2011 | CNR Fellow of the Instituto di Chimica dei Composti Organometallici, Florence, Italy |
| 2010 | Esther and Bingham J. Humphrey Memorial Lecturer, The University of Vermont (USA) |
| seit 2007 | Visiting Professor at the Anhui University of Technology (Ma'anshan, China) |
| seit 2005 | "Concurrent Professor" of Nanjing University (China) |
| 1998 | Albright & Wilson lecturer of the University of Bristol, School of Chemistry Bristol, UK |
| 1993 - 1996 | Heisenberg-Fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG) |
| 1992 - 1993 | Feodor Lynen-Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation |
| 1990 - 1991 | DAAD-Stipendium |
| 1980 - 1983 | Research Fellowship of the University of Halle-Wittenberg |
