Vita            

1966-1968

Physics Undergraduate at the University of Heidelberg

1968-1972

Diploma (Velocity Dependence of Penning Electron Energy Spectra) at the University of Freiburg with Otto Osberghaus

1976

PhD / Dr. rer. nat. (Ionization of Atomic Oxygen and Energy Dependence of Penning Ionization Cross Sections) with Arend Niehaus

1983

Habilitation at Fachbereich Chemie, FU Berlin/ Germany (Negative Ions in the Gas Phase)

1984-1985

Research Fellow (Photodetachment from Polyatomic Anions), Department of Chemistry, Stanford University with John I. Brauman

Since 1989

Professor of Physical Chemistry, FU Berlin/ Germany

Functions            

23.02.1989

Chairman, 41th Bunsenkolloquium/ Berlin, Germany (Excesselectrons in Gases and Liquids)

4.-17.09.1993

Director, NATO Advanced Study Institute/ Patras, Greece with Werner-F. Schmidt and L.G. Christophorou (Linking the Gaseous and Condensed Phases of Matter)

1994

Editor, Linking the Gaseous and Condensed Phases of Matter: The Behavior of Slow Electrons (Plenum/ New York (1994), 596 pages) with L.G. Christophorou and W.-F. Schmidt

5.-6.06.1997

Chairman, 174th Heraeus Seminar/ Bad Honnef, Germany with Petra Swiderek (Low Energy Electron-Molecule Interactions at Different Degrees of Aggregation)

1995-1998 (one month each year)

Professeur Invité at Laboratoire des Collisions Atomiques et Moléculaires (LCAM), Université Paris-Sud XI/ Orsay, France

1995-2005 (one month each year)

Guest Professor at Institut für Ionenphysik, Universität Innsbruck/ Austria

2001

Guest Editor, International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, Special Issue (Low energy electron-molecule interactions, Vol. 205 (2001), pp 1-341) with Tilmann D. Märk

2002

Member of International Advisory Boards:
• International Symposium on Electron-Molecule Collisions and Swarms (EMS)
• European Conference on Elementary Processes in Atomic Systems (CEPAS)
• International Symposium on Low Energy Electron - Molecule Interactions (LEEMI)

2004

Member Editorial Board
The European Physical Journal D

Awards            

2000

Gold Medal
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Comenius University, Bratislava

2002

Schrödinger Medal in Gold
XIII. Symposium on Atomic and Surface Physics (SASP)