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Scientific Career

since 2019	Senior Professor at RWTH Aachen University
since 2003	Member of the Scientific Board of the DWI - Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials
2003 – 2019	Director of the DWI - Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials
2002 – 2019	Professor of Textile and Macromolecular Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University
1993 – 2002	Professor, Head of the Dept. of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry at the University of Ulm; Chairman of the DFG-SFB-Program 569 “Hierarchical Structures and Functions in Organic-Inorganic Nanosystems”
1989 – 1993	Professor of Polymer Technology and Macromolecular Materials, Department of Chemical Technology, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
1982 - 1989	Research Fellow at the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, University of Freiburg. Habilitation on ‘Dynamic conformational disorder in mesomorphic and crystalline phases of flexible chain molecules’.
1981 – 1982	Feodor-Lynen-Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation at the Polymer Science and Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst A
1981	PhD, ‘Interrelations between structure and rotational isomerism of model polymers‘, University of Freiburg
1972 – 1978	Study of Chemistry in Hamburg and Freiburg, Germany

Awards

2016	ERC Advanced Grant
2014	Hermann-Staudinger-Preis of the ‘Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker’
2012	Honary doctor and and member of the senate, Technical University Cluj-Napoca
2003	Körber European Science Award

Memberships and further activities

• 2006-2012: Member of the Senatsausschuss für Angelegenheiten der Sonderforschungsbereiche der DFG
• 2008-2011: Board member of the Wissenschaftlicher Rat der AiF
• Seit 2009: Chairman of the scientific advisory board of the European Polymer Federation
• Seit 2009: Member of the expert advisory board for polymer research at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz
• Since 2011: Member of the ProcessNet ‚Polymers‘ board
• Since 2015: Member of the Steering Committee of the profile area Medical Science & Technology at RWTH Aachen University
• Since 2015: Member of the DFG Review Board 'Polymer Research'
• Member of the editorial boards of the following journals: Biomacromolecules, Advances in Polymer Science, Polymer Bull, Eur. Phys. J. Soft Matter
• Member of the acatech - the NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
• Member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
• Member of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Ärzte und Naturforscher, of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Chemische Vereniging and the American Chemical Society
• Member of the AiF Gutachtergruppe 5.2