1979 Graduation in Chemistry from the Technical University of Berlin (Germany)1982 Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the same university2000 Visiting Professor at the Leopold-Franzens University in Innsbruck (Austria)2002 Habilitation in Analytical Chemistry at the Leopold-Franzens University in Innsbruck (Austria)2011 Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Gdansk (Poland)  1982 Application chemist at Dionex, now part of Thermo Fisher Scientific1998 Global sales support as Technical Director located in Dreieich (Germany). 3rd edition of the “Handbook of Ion Chromatography” was published in German (2001) and English (2004).