born 1970 in Schärding/Austria 1989-1997    Studies of Technical Chemistry at the TU Wien 1994             Diploma Thesis, University of Heidelberg (Prof.  G. Helmchen) 1995-1998    PhD Thesis at the Max-Planck-Institute für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim/Ruhr, (Prof. M. T. Reetz) 1998-1999    Post-Doc at the Department of Chemistry, Harvard University (Prof. E. N. Jacobsen) 2000-2006    Group Leader at the Department of Chemical Biology, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund 2003-2005    Junior Professor, University of Dortmund 2005-2007    Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Leipzig since 2007    Professor of Organic Chemistry and Head of the Institute of Organic Chemistry (TU Graz)