Personal data:

Date of birth:     13 February 1963, Hamburg, Germany
Nationality:       German
marital status:    married

Affiliation:

                   Department of Chemistry 
                   University of Zurich
                   CH-8057 Zürich
                   Tel. (+41 44) 635 42 63
                   Fax: (+41 44) 635 68 82
Position:          Titularprofessor and Senior Research Fellow 

private Address:

                   Neunbrunnenstrasse 106c
                   CH-8050 Zürich
                   Tel. +41-44-321 67 36

Career:

1983-87  Student of Chemistry at the University of Hamburg

1986-87  Study at the Department of Chemistry, Southampton,
         Great Britain as part of an scientific exchange  programme
         "Integriertes Auslandsstipendium" (DAAD)

1989     Diploma Thesis in the group of Prof. tomDieck 
         
1989-94  Dr. phil. (PhD), University of Zurich, Institute of Organic 
         Chemistry, Prof. von Philipsborn: 
         "Contributions to Heteronuclear Editing Techniques
         in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance". ("summa cum laude")

1994-95  Postdoctoral fellow in the group of Prof. Wüthrich,
         Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics.


1995-02  Department of Pharmacy, ETH Zürich, Leader of the NMR facilities
         Habilitation in Medicinal Chemistry.

2003-    Head of the NMR department of the Institute of Organic Chemistry,
         Privatdozent of the University of Zurich.

2008-    Promoted to "Titularprofessor"