Born 1958 in Heidelberg, Germany

1977-1984 Study of Chemistry in Heidelberg and Freiburg, Germany

1984-1987 PhD (biomolecular NMR) at the ETH-Zürich in the group of Prof. Kurt Wüthrich (Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry 2002)

1987-1992 Academic position with Prof. Kurt Wüthrich

1992-2002 Professor of Molecular Biophysics at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden

2002-2007 ARC Federation Fellow at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia

from 2007 Professor at the ANU

2017-2022 ARC Australian Laureate Fellow at the ANU

President of the Australian and New Zealand Magnetic Resonance Society (ANZMAG) 2006-08

Awards: ETH silver medal for PhD thesis (1987), Latsis Prize of the ETH-Zürich (1992), FEBS Anniversary Prize of the Gesellschaft für Biologische Chemie (1993), Wallmarkska Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1996), foreign member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences (2005), Humboldt Research Award (2010), Medal of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Magnetic Resonance (2013), ISMAR Fellow (2016)

Combined citations of publications: >20000
h-index (ISI): > 70