Education
Diploma: Mathematics, University of Frankfurt, 1980
Dissertation: Mathematics, TU-Darmstadt, 1984
Habilitation: Mathematics, TU-Darmstadt, 1988
Professional positions
| 06/1980 – 05/1983 | Stipend „Cusanuswerk e.V.“ |
| 06/1983 – 05/1986 | Scientific Collaborator at TU Darmstadt |
| 06/1986 – 07/1989 | C1-Hochschulassistent (Assistant Professor) at TU Darmstadt |
| 09/1988 – 07/1989 | Visiting Assistant Professor at Virginia Polytechnic Instituteand State University (VPI) Blacksburg, Virginia, USA |
| 08/1989 – 07/1992 | Assistant Professor at Georgetown University, WashingtonDC, USA |
| 08/1989 – 07/1992 | Heisenberg Award |
| 08/1992 – 03/2000 | C3-Professor/Associate Professor (Fiebigerprofessor) at Uni-versität Bayreuth |
| 10/2000 – 11/2000 | Visiting Professor at University Paris 6 and Institute HenriPoincare |
| 04/2000 – 09/2003 | C4-Professor/Full Professor at TU Darmstadt |
| 02/2008 – 03/2008 | Visiting Professor at University Nancy (Elie Cartan) |
| 10/2010 – 11/2010 | Visiting Professor at IHP and University Paris 11 |
| 03/2011 – 04/2011 | Visiting Professor at Fudan University Shanghai, China |
| 10/2003 – present | C4-Professor, Chair of „Angewandte Mathematik II“ at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| 04/2015 – present | Vice President for International Affairs (FAU) |