Curriculum vitae

 

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

 

Research Visits:
June 1994 STRAFI-Workshop in Lisbon, Portugal (Prof. Feio) STRAFI-Imaging of Materials
July 1995 NATO Collaborative Research Grant, IBM Almaden Research Labs, CA, U.S.A Cryogenic NMR-Imaging of Hydrogen Isotopes
June 1997 University of Tel Aviv, Israel (Prof. G. Navon) 2H-NMR Spectroscopy of Mechanical Forces in Biological Tissues with an NMR-Endoscope
12/97 -3/98 Visiting Scientist at Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academica Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. (Dr. D.-L. Tzou) 13C-NMR Imaging
10/07 -4/08 Visiting Scientist at Univeristy of California, Santa Barbara, Prof. S. Han DNP