Education

• Vor-Diplom in Chemistry (1962) Darmstadt University of Technology (TH Darmstadt)
• Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures (1964) Université de Grenoble, France
• Haupt-Diplom in Chemistry (1965), Darmstadt University of Technology (TH Darmstadt)
• PhD-Thesis (1968), Darmstadt University of Technology (TH Darmstadt)

Career

• Research Assistant, Physical Chemistry Darmstadt (1965-1968)
• EURATOM-Fellow, Centre d’Etudes Nucléaires, Grenoble (1968-69)
• Scientific Research Fellow, Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble (1969-1975)
• Visiting Scientist AERE Harwell and Oxford University (1970-71)
• Professor for Crystallography, University Frankfurt (1975-1989)
• Professor Materials Science, Darmstadt University of Technology (1989-present)

Administration

• Director 1980-87, Institute of Crystallography, Frankfurt University
• Dean 1980-81, Department of Geosciences, Frankfurt University
• Dean 1990-93, Materials Science Department, Darmstadt
• Dean 1999-2005, Faculty of Materials Science and Geosciences, Darmstadt
• Member and chairman of numerous committees and commissions in the Universities of Frankfurt and Darmstadt
• Offers for C4 positions (full professor) at the University of Hamburg (1989) and the University of Bochum (1988) were not accepted

Scientific Organizations and Institutions

• President German Crystallographic Association AGKr (1986-1988)
• Vice-Chairman (1990-1994) and chairman (1994-1997) European Crystallographic Committee. The committee has been transformed during this chairmanship into the European Crystallographic Association ECA.
• Member in Scientific Committees (only listed since 1995)
  1. Executive Committee International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1996-2002
  2. Chairman Commission on the Union Calendar of the IUCr (1999-2002)
  3. Science Advisory Council, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, (ESRF) Vice-Chairman 1997-1999; Chairman 1997-2001
  4. Research Reactor Munich (1995-2003)
  5. Synchrotron Laboratory HASYLAB, Hamburg, 1996-1999 (Chairman 1998/99)
  6. Institute for Materials Research, Dresden, 1995-2001 (Chairman 1998-2001)
  7. Evaluation Committee Institutes for Materials Science of Spain (2001-2004)
  8. Committee Use of Large Facilities at the German Ministry of Research (BMBF), Chairman 2003-2007
  9. Comité de Direction for CNRS-Institutes in France (Bordeaux, Lyon, Toulouse) 2000, 2001
  10. Fachkollegium Crystallography of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 2004-2007
  11. Commission for the Evaluation of Max Planck-Institutes (Solid State) 2006-2007

Grants and Honours

• EURATOM grant for post-doc at CENG, Grenoble, 1968
• Carl-Duisberg-Gesellschaft (grant for post-doc), 1968
• Humboldt-Research-Prize, France, 1991
• Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (JSPS) 1995, 1999, 2003/04
• Visiting Professor Oxford, UK, 1979; Toulouse, France 1987, 1992
• Humboldt-Mutis-Research Prize, Spain 1998
• Honorary Professor National University of Mongolia, Ulaan Baatar, 2002
• Honorary Doctor (Dr. h.c.) Technical University of Bratislava (Slovakia)

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