1968 - 1974
Study of physics at the Technical University of Munich, Germany
Diploma degree in physics (equivalent to M. Sc.)
1974 - 1979
Doctorate in physics at the Technical University of Munich on "Phonons in metal-hydrogen systems"
03.1979 - 09.1980
Scholarship by German Science Foundation (DFG) for 9 months followed by an employment as guest researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Maryland, USA
10. 1980 - 01.1981
Visiting research associate professorship at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maryland, Maryland, USA
02. 1981
Employment as scientist at the Institute Max von Laue – Paul Langevin (ILL), Grenoble, France
1984
Appointment as staff scientist at the ILL
1988
Appointment as group leader at the ILL (neutron optics)
07. 1993
Habilitation in Experimental Physics at the Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany, with the subject "High-resolution inelastic neutron spectroscopy – new methods and applications”
06. 1994
Guest professorship at the Ruhr University, Bochum
10. 1997 – 04. 2015
Professor for Crystallography and Structural Physics (chair) at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg
10. 2006 - 09. 2009
Head of the physics department at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Since April 2015
Retired from University chair,
Part time employment at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Since March 2024
Part time employment at JCNS-3 (Neutronenanalytik für die Energieforschung), Forschungszentrum Jülich