Oct. 1972 - July 1977 Study of Chemistry at the Technical University Berlin. Recipient
of a scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes.
Oct. 1976 - June 1977 Study of Biochemistry at the Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
July 1, 1977 Diploma in Chemistry, Technical University Berlin (With
Honors), Diploma Thesis: The Oxidation of Cyclic Organic
Sulfur Compounds by Hydroxyl Radicals (Supervisor: Prof. K.-
D. Asmus)
Nov. 1977 - June 1981 Research Scientist at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute Berlin with
Prof. K.-D. Asmus, research areas: radiation chemistry, free
radical chemistry
July 3, 1981 Ph.D. in Chemistry, Technical University Berlin (With Honors),
title of thesis: Formation and Properties of Phenothiazine
Radical Cations. A Pulse Radiolysis and Stopped-Flow Study
(Supervisor: Prof. K.-D. Asmus)
April 2012 Habilitation in the field of Technical Chemistry at the Leibniz
University of Hannover.
July - Aug. 1981 Post Doctoral DFG-fellowship at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute
Berlin
Sept. 1981 – Feb. 1988 Senior Scientist at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute Berlin with Prof.
A. Henglein, research areas: particulate photoelectrochemistry
and photochemistry, initiating research in photocatalysis
employing nano-scale metal and semiconductor particles.
1982 - 1988 Lecturer for Physical Chemistry, Radiation Chemistry and
Chemistry for Physicists at the Technical University Berlin
March 1985 - Apr. 1987 Visiting Associate at the California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena (USA) with Prof. M. R. Hoffmann in the Department
of Environmental Engineering. Working on free radical
processes in the environment and on photocatalysis for
pollution control.
March 1988 – Apr. 2002 Department Head of the Photochemistry and Thin Film
Technology Department at the Institute for Solar Energy
Research in Hannover/Germany. In charge of the
Photocatalysis Research Group.
since May 2002 Head of Photocatalysis and Nanotechnology Research Unit at
the Institute of Technical Chemistry, Leibniz University of
Hannover. Supervisor of Ph.D. and master theses.
since January 2014 Director of Megagrant Laboratory "Photoactive Nanocomposite
Materials" at St. Petersburg State University (Russia).
since July 2014 Supernumerary Professor in the Faculty of Natural Sciences at
the Leibniz University of Hannover.
since November 2020 Distinguished Professor at Shaanxi University of Science &
Technology, Xi’an (Peoples Republic of China).
