| Born: | 1967 in Recklinghausen, Germany |
| Education: | 1986 - 1991 Pharmacy study at the Westfälische Wilhems Universität Münster |
| 1991 – 1992 Predoctoral Fellow at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA | |
| PhD: | 1992 – 1997, PhD Thesis at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology, FU Berlin Germany |
| Postgraduate Qualification (Habilitation): | 1998 – 2003, Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology, Biopharamcy and Biotechnology, FU Berlin, Germany |
| Positions: | 2003 – 2010, Professor for Natural Product Biosynthesis at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands |
