Curriculum Vitae

I Personal:
Born:	May 18, 1947, Meissen, Germany
Marital status:	married, 3 children

II Education:
November 1966 - October 1971	Study of Physics, University of Goettingen, Germany Diploma Thesis: „Anisotropic Critical Currents in Superconducting PbNa-Alloys“, Supervisor: Prof. P. Haasen
November 1971 - July 1976	Ph. D. in Physics, University of Goettingen, Thesis:„Flux Pinning in Superconductors by Regularly or Statistically Distributed Precipitates“, Supervisor: Prof. P. Haasen

III Professional:
November 1973 - December 1979	Research Associate, Institute of Metal Physics, University of Goettingen
January 1978 - January 1979	IBM World Trade Postdoc, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., USA
January 1980 - September 1989	Staff Scientist at Siemens Research Laboratories, Erlangen
October 1989 - May 1993	Head of „High Temperature Superconductors and Magnetic Materials“ Department at the Siemens Research Laboratories, Erlangen
May 1990 - July 1993	Honorary Lecturer, Physics Department, University of Augsburg
July 1991	Call on a C4 Professorship, TU Berlin (declined)
July 1991	Call on a C4 Professorship, University of Ulm (declined)
since June 1993	Full Professor (C4) of Metallic Materials and Metal Physics, TU Dresden and Director of the Institute of Metallic Materials at the Leibniz-Institute of Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) Dresden
1999	Call on a C4 Professorship, University of Jena (declined)
Since April 2008	Scientific Director of IFW Dresden