... about me ...
- 1972, May 23 born in Mannheim / Germany
- 1978/79 1st year of primary school in Adelebsen near Göttingen / Germany
- 1982-1991 secondary school & Abitur at Lessing-Gymnasium Mannheim
- 1991/1992 military service in the telecommunications battallion in Mannheim (office soldier)
- 1992-1994 studies in physics at the University of Kaiserslautern
- 1994-1998 studies in physics at the University of Heidelberg / Germany
- 1997, November 1 decision to become a christian believer
- 1998 degree Diplom-Physiker diploma thesis at the Landessternwarte in Heidelberg
- 1998, October 3 marriage
- 1999-2002 Ph.D. thesis about the simulation of jets of highly redshifted radio galaxies in Max Camenzind's group at the Landessternwarte in Heidelberg
- 2002, May 15 Examination
- 2002-2004 Postdoc in Max Camenzind's group at the Landessternwarte in Heidelberg
- 2004-now Postdoc in the Galaxy Evolution group at the Cavendish Laboratory (Astrophysics) in Cambridge (UK)