• 10/99 −01/04 
  University studies in Chemistry at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany and Joseph Fourier University of Grenoble, France
  

• 01/04
  Diploma in chemistry
  Title of diploma thesis: Quantenchemische Berechnung und Analyse lokaler Spins (with Prof. Dr. Bernd A. Hess at University of Erlangen Nuremberg, Germany )
  

• 02/04−11/06
  PhD studies in Theoretical Chemistry with Prof. Dr. Markus Reiher at the Universities of Bonn (Germany), Jena (Germany), and ETH Zurich (Switzerland).
  Research stays with Prof. Dr. Kenneth Ruud at University of Tromsø, Norway
  

• 11/2006
  Doctoral degree
  Title of PhD thesis: “Projection Techniques for Information Extraction and Complexity Reduction in Correlated Quantum Systems”
  

• 12/06 - 11/07
  Postdoctoral research fellow with Prof. Dr. Markus Reiher at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  

• 12/07 - 08/10
  Postdoctoral research fellow with Prof. Dr. Mark Ratner at Northwestern University, USA
  

• 09/10 - 04/11
  Postdoctoral research fellow with Prof. Dr. Victor Batista at Yale University, USA
  
  
• Since 05/11
  Non-tenured W2 (associate) professor
  at University of Hamburg, Germany
  

Fellowships and Awards

• 11/04-10/06 PhD fellowship of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
• 06/04-07/04 Fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for the Sostrup Summer School on Quantum Chemistry 
• 2007 Chorafas Prize 
• 12/07-11/08 Postdoctoral research fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
• 05/09-04/10 Postdoctoral research fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
• 09/10-04/11 Postdoctoral fellowship with the Yale Climate and Energy Institute