| Positions |
| since 2003 | Full professor in Hydrology, Chair of Hydrology, University of Bayreuth |
| 2001- 2003 | Full professor in Hydrogeology, Aachen University of Technology |
| Summer 1994 | Visiting Scientist at the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Co, USA |
| 1991 - 2001 | Head of the Limnological Research Station at the University of Bayreuth |
| 1989 - 1990 | Post-doc at the Lake Research Institute of the Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (EAWAG) and ETH-Zürich at Kastanienbaum/Switzerland |
| 1985 - 1989 | Graduate student in the Department of Hydrology at the University of Bayreuth. |
| 1977 - 1979 | Civil service at the Evangelisches Kinderheim Spengelhof, Munich. |
| Education |
| July 1989 | Graduation (Dr. rer. nat., advisor: Professor Herrmann), Faculty of Biology, hemistry and Geoscience. Title of dissertation: Biogeochemical Regulation of the Solubility of Trace Metals during the anaerobic Digestion of Municipal Solid Waste. |
| 1979 - 1985 | Enrolled in in Geoökologie (Environmental Sciences) at the University of Bayreuth/Germany, Diploma |
| 1968 - 1977 | Simon-Marius-Gymnasium Gunzenhausen, Abitur |
| 1964 - 1968 | Stephani-Grundschule Gunzenhausen. |
