Professional Experience
1996 – Full Professor (C4) Goethe University, Frankfurt
1990 – 1996 Habilitation at the Free University Berlin, Department of Physics
1989 – 1990 Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT, Cambridge, U.S.A.

University Education
1984 – 1988 PhD in Physics, University of Dortmund, (summa cum laude; mentor: Prof K. P. Dinse)
1983 – 1984 Diploma Thesis, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, (very good; mentor: Prof K. Hausser and Dr. K. P. Dinse)
1977 – 1984 Diploma, Physics, University of Heidelberg, (very good)

Fellowships and Awards
2018-2021 President of the International ESR Society
2017-2023 Chair of the Board of Trustees of the EUROMAR Conference Series
2014 International Zavoisky Award of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Russian Academy of Sciences
2013 Fellow of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance
2012-2020 Board Member of the Chemistry Panel of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
2012-2015 Chair of the Department of Biochemistry, Chemistry and Pharmacy of the Goethe University Frankfurt
2011 Bruker Lecture of the Royal Society for Chemistry
2008 Silver Medal of the International EPR Society
2006-2017 Member of the Center of Excellence Macromolecular Complexes
2001-2013 President of the EPR Subgroup of the German Magnetic Resonance Division of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker
2000-2001 Chair of the Chemistry Department of the Goethe University
1997 Phillip Morris Research Award
1989 – 1990 Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Research Interests
EPR spectroscopy
Dynamic nuclear polarization
Dipolar and hyperfine spectroscopy
Dynamics of RNA and DNA
Structure and functional dynamics of protein complexes
In-cell dynamics and interactions of proteins and nucleic acids
Electron transfer reactions in membrane proteins
THz/GHz microwave technology
Hyperpolarization for MRI