| Date and place of birth | 16. January 1973 , Munich, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Marital status | married, one daughter |
| 1979 - 1983 | Primary School (Grundschule III Ottobrunn) |
| 1983 - 1992 | High School (Gymnasium Ottobrunn) |
| July 1992 | School leaving examination (Allgemeine Hochschulreife) |
| 1992 - 1993 | Military service for Federal Republic of Germany |
| 1993 - 1999 | Student of chemistry at the Technical University of Munich |
| April 1999 | Diploma in chemistry |
| 1999 - 2002 | Ph.D. student in the group of Prof. Dr. Dr. A. Bacher at TUM |
| August 2002 | Ph.D. in Chemistry |
| 1999 - 2002 | Researcher and Teaching Assistant at the TUM |
| December 2002 | Certificate of competence as group leader and commissioner for biological safety (§ 15 and § 17 GenTSV |
| 2003 | Research fellow in the TP-group of Prof. Knoll at the National University of Singapore (NUS) |
| 2004 | Research associate at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Singapore |
| 2004 - 2007 | Scientist at the Max-Plank-Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz |
| since 2007 | Assistant Professor at the Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Chemo- and Biosensors (University of Regensburg) |
| Analytical Chemistry | |
| Biosensors and Bioelectronics | |
| Langmuir | |
| Sensors & Actuators B | |
| Journal of American Chemical Society (JACS) |
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