Education and Profession
- Since 2014 Extraordinary Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Technische Universität München
- 2007-2014 Independent group leader (Privatdozent and akademischer Direktor)
- 2006 Habilitation, „Störungs-Relaxationsanalyse komplexer Isotopologgemische (Isotopolome)
zur Metabolitflussmessung in biologischen Netzwerken“, Department of Chemistry, Technische Universität München - 2000 - 2007 Research Associate (akademischer Oberrat) at the Department of Chemistry, Technische Universität München
- 1991 - 2000 Research Associate (akademischer Rat) at the Department of Chemistry, Technische Universität München
- 1989 Guest scientist at Procter & Gamble Company, Schwalbach, Brüssel
- 1987 - 1990 PhD student at the Department of Chemistry, Technische Universität München
- 1980 - 1987 Study of Chemistry at the Technische Universität München, Master (Diploma) in Chemistry
- 1971 - 1980 Peutinger-Gymnasium Augsburg
Memberships
- President of the Hans-Fischer Gesellschaft, München
- Member of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker
- Member of the Verein für Allgemeine und Angewandte Mikrobiologie (VAAM)
- Member of the Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie (GBM)
- Member of the Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein für Schwaben
Service and Committees
- Head of the NMR routine facility (7 NMR spectrometers 200 - 500 MHz)
- Head of the Center of Isotopologue profiling installed by the DFG priority program 1316 (2008-2013)
- Secretary (Schriftführer) of the Board of Examiners (Master Chemistry TUM)
- Selection committee of the Hans-Fischer Award
- PV-Admin of the Institute
- Reviewer for various Journals
- Reviewer for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- Reviewer for the French National Research Agency (ANR)
Teaching
- Head of the Praktikum Chemie II Organic Chemistry and Physical Chemistry Bachelor Life Sciences TUM Weihenstephan
- Head of the Praktikum Biochemie für Chemiker: Bachelor Chemie, IBT, Educational Sciences TUM
- NMR spectroscopy courses during the Praktikum BC3 (Biochemie und Molekulare Biotechnologie TUM)
- Lecturer for "Chemische Grundlagen": Bachelor Lehramt für Berufliche Schulen
- Lecturer for "Biochemische Grundlagen": Bachelor Lehramt für Berufliche Schulen und Diplom TUM BWL
Current Funding
- Metabolism of Pathogenic Bacteria including Chlamydia trachomatis (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
- Origin of Metabolism: Metabolism in Archaea and Deeply Branching Bacteria (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, CRC 235 Emergence of Life)
- Targeted Biological Synthesis of Pharmaceutically Relevant Triterpenoids (ASPIRANT, BMBF)
- Development of Bio-Pesticides and -Herbicides for Sustainable Agricultural Crop Production (BIOPESTICIDES, PRIMA, BMBF)
- Bioorganic Chemistry, Porphyrins and Pyrrols (Hans-Fischer Gesellschaft)