ACADEMIC EDUCATION

1983     high school diploma (Leibniz School, Offenbach, Germany)

1986     pre-diploma in physics (University of Frankfurt, Germany)

1989     diploma in physics (Heidelberg University, Germany)

1989     Master of Science in bioengineering (University of California at San Diego)

1992     PhD in physics (Heidelberg University, Germany)

1997     habilitation in physics (Heidelberg University, Germany)

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1990–92        employee of Intelligent Surgical Lasers, Inc., San Diego

1992–95        postdoc at the Institute of Applied Physics, Heidelberg University, Germany

in 1996          research fellow at the Wellman Laboratories, Harvard Medical School

1997–99        lecturer at Heidelberg University, Germany

in 1999          head of "Optical Spectroscopy" at Fraunhofer IPM, Freiburg, Germany

since 2000    full professor at Heidelberg University

since 2000    director of the Mannheim Biomedical Engineering Laboratories (MABEL)

 

SCIENTIFIC AWARDS

1986     German national scholarship

1990     German national scholarship (for PhD)

1995     Karl-Freudenberg-Award by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences

1996     research scholarship by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

1996     research fellowship by the Wellman Laboratories, Harvard Medical School

 

HIGHLIGHTS AS AUTHOR AND SPEAKER

2006     guest in German TV talkshow "Menschen der Woche"

2006     Lucy mit c becomes the first German self-published bestseller
2009     keynote speaker at the 14th Congress of Biological Cancer Defense, Germany
2009     Lucy trilogy is complete (in German)

2016     keynote speaker at the Spiraldynamik Congress 2016 in Zurich, Switzerland

2018     keynote speaker at the 25th ALD Conference in Orlando, Florida

2019     4th edition of the Springer textbook "Laser–Tissue Interactions"

2024     presentation of the new spacetime theory at the DPG Spring Meetings