Academic Education

1975 - 1976

Study of pedagogics biology/chemistry at the University of Rostock

1976 - 1980

Study of chemistry at the University of Rostock

1980 - 1984

Research study at the University of Rostock

1982

Research stay at the agrochemical company Fahlberg-List Magdeburg

1984

Ph.D. in Rostock with Prof. Dr. H. Kristen (Topic: acyclic C-nucleosides)

1981

Research stay at the Kossuth-Lajos-University of Debrecen (Hungary) with Prof. Dr. I. Farkas

1986

Resarch stay at the pharmaceutical company ISIS Chemie Zwickau

1987

Resarch stay at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (India) with Dr. B. M. Choudhury

1991 - 1992

Postdoc at the Université Paris Sud (France) with Prof. Dr. H. B. Kagan

1993

Research stay at the Université Paris Sud (France) with Prof. Dr. H. B. Kagan

1993 - 1994

Guest professor at the Bayerische Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg

1997

Habilitation at the University of Rostock

2000 - 2020

Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Rostock

Profession

1984 - 1991

Scientific co-worker at the department “Complex Catalysis” of the Academie of Sciences of the GDR (Head: Prof. Dr. H. Pracejus)

1992 - 1997

Dep. Leader of the working group „Asymmetric Catalysis“ of  the  Max-Planck-Society (Head: Prof. Dr. R. Selke)

1998 - 2002

Leader of a department at the Institute of Organic Catalytic Research

2000

Professor  of Organic Chemistry

Since 2002

Head of a department at  the Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse

Awards and other Activities

1989

Award of the Central Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences

1995

Otto-Röhm-Award

2001

Descartes-Prize of the European Commission together with M. North (London, GB), H. B. Kagan (Orsay, France), J. M. Brown (Oxford, GB), Y. Belokon (Moscow, Russia)