Curriculum Vitae
Born in 1964 in Munich, study of physics at Technical University in Aachen, PhD at the Joint European Torus JET in Culham (Great Britain), scientific assistant at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Berlin (1995) and Garching (1996), director of the Institute of Plasma Physics at the Research Centre Jülich (2002), habilitation at University Mons-Hainaut (Belgium), university professor at Ruhr University in Bochum (2003), Director and Scientific Member at Greifswald Branch of Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (since 2006).