Diploma in Chemistry University of Dortmund; Ph.D. in materials sciences from University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1997; joined DECHEMA as a research scientist in 1997; head of the corrosion research group since 2005; 2012 habilitation in materials technology at RWTH Aachen Technical University; Adjunct Professor at RWTH in 2018; March 2017 - June 2022 member of the Institute Directorate of DECHEMA Research Institute; serves since 2023 as President of the German Corrosion Society GfKORR (before that from 2017-2022 head of the Scientific Advisory Board of GfKORR as well as chairman of the EFC European Federation of Corrosion Science and Technology Advisory Committee); chairman of EFC Working Party Coatings since 2012.