Born 21.9.1956, Study of Physics at the TU München, doctorate (1985) and habilitation(1990) at the LMU München, Research Fellow California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (1985-86), CERN Fellow, Geneva, Switzerland(1988-90), Heisenberg Fellow of the DFG (1990-93) at CERN, Professor für Physik, Chair for Quantum Field Theory HU Berlin (1993-2003), Scientific Member of the MPS and Director at the MPI for Physics (since December 2003) and chair for Mathematical Physics at the LMU München (since July 2004)