Jan 1999 – May 2001   Dr. rer. nat. (summa cum laude) at the Institut für Technische und
                                       Makromolekulare Chemie, Universität Hamburg, supervised by 
                                       Prof. Dr.-Ing. W.-M. Kulicke 

Oct 1992 – Dec 1998    Undergraduate and graduate study for the Diploma in Chemistry from the 
                                       Department of Chemistry, Universität Hamburg

Research Experience 

Jun 2001 – present       Postdoctoral associate in the Non-Newtonian Fluids Lab with Gareth McKinley
                                       at the Dept. of  Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
                                       (MIT), Cambridge (MA), USA 
                                       Built a new fluid micro-sample and -gap tester (FMR) in cooperation
                                       with DuPont, Wilmington, DE (USA). Extensional rheology of complex fluids.
                                       Capillary break-up of liquid columns. 

Jan 1999 – May 2001   Dr. rer. nat.  at the Institut für Technische und Makromolekulare Chemie.
                                       Investigation of the gel formation in biopolymer solutions. Developement of
                                       new rheo-optical techniques to clarify the gel formation in beer, funded by the
                                       Wissenschaftsförderung der deutschen Brauwirtschaft (Science Foundation
                                       of the German Beer Brewing Industry), Bonn (Germany).

Mar 1996 – Jun 1996   ERASMUS scholarship in the Department of Chemistry, University of Wales,
                                       Bangor. Synthesis of a new multimetallic organotransition-metalcomplex as
                                       a catalyst for alkene metathesis polymerization.

Teaching and Work Experience 

2000            Co-organizer of the “XXIII. Hamburger Makromolekurares Symposium”
2000             Teaching Assistant in Rheology Seminars Series. 
1997-1998   Tutoring in the Department of Chemistry, Universität  Hamburg.
1997-1999   Scientific coordinator for Medicoplan GmbH, Hamburg Sampling and analyzation of
                    enviromental toxins