Professional background

seit 04/2016 Professor of Bioprocess Engineering at the Faculty of Bio- and Chemical Engineering, TU Dortmund University of Technology

01/2009 – 03/2016 Manager and Scientific Head of the Bioreactions Group, Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research, Novartis, Basel (CH)

08/2003 – 12/2008 Group Leader Technical Biocatalysis, Institute of Biotechnology, Research Center Jülich at the same time scientific assistant (Habilitand) at the Chair of Technical Chemistry and Biotechnology, Kekulé Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bonn

Habilitation

06/2012 venia legendi for biochemistry (University of Bonn)

09/2013 venia docendi for biochemistry (Universität Basel, Umhabilitation)

PhD

10/2000 – 10/2004 at the Institute for Biotechnology (Prof. Dr. C. Wandrey), Research Centre Jülich

Subject:    "Process development of electroenzymatic sulfoxidation with chloroperoxidase".

Studium

01/2000 – 09/2000 Diploma thesis at the Kekulé Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry (Prof. Dr. E. Steckhan) and at the Institute for Biotechnology, Research Center Jülich, subject: "Electroenzymatic reactions with chloroperoxidase from Leptoxyphium fumago".

10/1995 -   12/1999 Chemistry studies, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn