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| 2.6.65 | day of birth |  | 
| 1975 - 84 | Highschool: Rabanus-Maurus Gymnasium in Mainz |  | 
| 1984 - 90 | Study of chemistry at Johannes-Gutenberg University in Mainz |  | 
| 1989 - 90 | Diploma thesis with Prof. H. W. Spieß at Max-Planck-Institut for Polymer Research, Mainz | Possibilies and Limits of Spin-Echo Imaging Techniques in Polymer Research | 
| 1990 - 93 | Study of medicine at Johannes-Gutenberg University in Mainz |  | 
| 1990 - 93 | Ph.D. student with Prof. H. W. Spieß at Max-Planck-Institut for Polymer Research, Mainz | Improvement of Contrast and Resolution for NMR-Imaging of Polymers | 
| 1993 - 94 | Postdoc at IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, U.S.A. | Cryogenic NMR-Imaging of Hydrogen Isotopes for Inertial Confinement Nuclear Fusion | 
| 1994 - 99 | Senior scientist at the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Prof. Bernhard Blümich, RWTH Aachen | Functional NMR Imaging | 
| 1999 - 01 | Senior lecturer at the School of Physics of the University of Kent at Canterbury | Mobile NMR and MRI | 
| 2001 - 06 | Project Leader at the Max-Planck-Institut for Polymer Research, Mainz (04-06 part time employed) | NMR of Hyperpolarized Gases | 
| 2004 - 09 | Staff Scientist at IBG-2 at Research Center Jülich | NMR of Plants (low and high field) | 
| since 8/09 | Staff Scientist at Institute of Physics, Univeristy of Mainz | NMR and Hyperpolarization |