Curriculum Vitae:

• Born August 4, 1940 at Göttingen, Germany
• Studies of physics and chemistry at the universities of Göttingen and Freiburg
• Diploma 1964 at Göttingen university
• Dr. rer. nat. 1965 at Göttingen university
• Habilitation 1968 at Göttingen university
• Full professor of physical chemistry, EPF Lausanne 1971 - 1975
• Full professor of physical chemistry, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1975 - 2008
• Director at Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, Göttingen 1990 - 2008
• Professor emeritus at Institute of Physical Chemistry, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 2008 - present
• Professor emeritus at Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, Göttingen 2008 - present
• Niedersachsenprofessor for Research, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 2009 - 2014

Academy memberships: Leopoldina Halle 1980, Göttingen 1982, Academia Europea London 1989, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Cambridge 1989, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften 2001, Finnish Academy of Sciences 2012

Awards: Bodenstein-Preis, Deutschen Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie 1971; Centenary Medal 1980 and Polanyi Medal 1992, Royal Society London; Max-Planck research award 1994; Carus Medal, Leopoldina 1995; Bernard Lewis Gold Medal, Combustion Institute 1996; Walther Nernst Denkmünze, Bunsen-Gesellschaft 1998, Honorary Member, Bunsen-Gesellschaft 2009; Fellow of the American Physical Society 2010
Honorary Professorship EPF Lausanne 1976
Honorory Doctorates Bordeaux 1995, Karlsruhe 1995, Helsinki 2014

Research interests:

• Reaction kinetics
• Spectroscopy
• Photochemistry
• Atmospheric Chemistry
• Combustion Chemistry
• Astrochemistry
  
• Laser Chemistry