- 1981-1988 student of physics, Freie Universität Berlin and Univ. of Nottingham, UK
- 1988 diploma thesis in atomic physics: ‘High Resolution Laser Spectroscopy of Free Atoms’
- 1993 PhD thesis in Medical Physics, Freie Universität Berlin: ’Imaging of tumours by laser-induced fluorescence’
- 1988-1993 research assistant, group ’Medizinische Meßtechnik’, Physikalisch - Technische Bundesanstalt, Berlin.
- 1993-1996 research fellow, Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering, University College London, UK
- 1997-2001 research fellow, Department of Neurology, Charité, Humboldt University Berlin
- since 2001 professor at RheinAhrCampus Remagen, Univ. of Applied Sciences Koblenz
