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1985 - 1986	Military Service, Neuburg (Donau)
1985	Abitur, ESG, Filderstadt, Germany
1966	born in Berlin, Germany

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Conjugated Polymers: Insights from Optical Spectroscopy & Theory (invited), 'SUPERIOR' modelling workshop, Mons, Belgium, 01.-03.10.2010
Electronic, Optical & Photophsyical Properties of Conjugated Organic Materials: At the Crossroad of Spectroscopy and Theory (invited), Unité Physico-Chimie et de Physique des Matériaux (PCPM), Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 24.06.2010
Bandgap Engineering of Conjugated Co-Polymers by Orbital Design (invited), Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel Materials, University of Mons, Belgium, 22.06.2010
Nanomatch - A European Project, European Spring School 2010 on Supramolecular Organized Nanostructured Materials for Optoelectronic Applications, Alghero, Italy, 06.-11.06.2010
Optical and Electronic Properties of Conjugated Organic Materials: a Lesson from Spectroscopy and Theory (invited), Physics Department, University of Alicante, Spain, 14.05.2010
Conjugated Donor-Acceptor Co-Polymers: Bandgap Engineering by Orbital Design, International Workshop on Molecular Materials, Sanxenxo, Spain, 02.-05.05.2010
Bandgap Engineering of Conjugated Co-Polymers by Orbital Design (invited), SKKU Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea, 01.04.2010
3D energy transfer in weakly coupled Supramolecular Architectures (invited), School of Chemistry, Seoul National University, South Korea, 31.03.2010
Impact of Fluorination on the Structure, Optics and Photophyics of Conjugated Materials (invited), Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea, 24.03.2010
Fluorination of Conjugated Organic Materials: Tuning of Ground and Excited State Properties (invited), Institute for Physical & Theoretical Chemistry, University of Tübingen, Germany, 18.03.2010
Exciton Coupling and Transport in Conjugated Organic Materials, Nanomatch Workshop, University of Tübingen, Germany, 25.02.2010
Conjugated Donor-Acceptor Co-Polymers by Orbital Design, Symposium CPiC, Valencia, Spain, 21.-23.01.2010
Optical and Photophysical Properties of Conjugated Materials, Nanomatch Workshop, University of Mons, Belgium, 13.10.2009
Bandgap Tuning in Conjugated Co-polymers, IMDEA Seminar, Madrid, Spain, 06.10.2009
Optical Spectroscopy of Conjugated Organic Materials: a combined experimental and theoretical approach (invited), Chemistry Department, University of Bari, Italy, 17. & 18.09.2009
Bandgap Engineering of Conjugated Co-Polymers by Orbital Design, Conference FuturMat, Ostuni, Italy, 12.-16.09.2009
Optical and Electronic Properties of pi-Conjugated Molecules: At the Crossroad of Spectroscopy, Theory and Novel Materials (invited), Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, South Korea, 24.06.2009
Tutorial: Particle Sizing by Dynamic and Static Light Scattering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea, 24.06.2009
Bandgap Tuning of Conjugated Co-Polymers , Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea, 23.06.2009
Exciton Migration in Supramolecular Assemblies (invited), Chemistry Department, Busan National University, South Korea, 18.06.2009
Optical & Electronic Characteristics of Conjugated Organic Materials: a Lesson from Spetroscopy and Theory (invited), Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, 16.06.2009
Spatial Control of 3D Energy Transport in Supramolecular Architectures (invited), Conference Optical Probes 2009, Beijing, China, 08.06.2009
Spectroscopy of Conjugated Polymers: A Theoretical Approach (invited), Course on Physics & Chemics of Polymers, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium, 25.-29.05.2009
Electronic, Optical & Photophysical Properties of Organic Chromophores (invited), Ciba Speciality Chemicals, Basel, Switzerland, 30.04.2009
Conjugated Organic Materials: Optical & Electronic Characteristics from Solution to the Solid State (invited), Physics Department, Université de la Mediterrané Aix-Marseille II, 26.01.2009
3D Energy Transport in Supramolecular Assemblies (invited), Institut Fresnel, Marseille, 23.01.2009
Spatial Control of 3D Energy Transport through Supramolecular Architectures (invited), Modecom Workshop on "Transport and Molecular Organization in Organic and Bioorganic Electronics" 14.01.2009
3D Energy Tranport in Supramolecular Assemblies, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea, 14.11.2008
Tutorial: Optical & Electronic Properties of Conjugated Organic Materials, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea, 12.11.2008
At the Crossroad of Spectroscopy, Theory and Novel Materials: Optical Excitations and Exciton Processes in Conjugated Organic Materials (invited), KIST, Seoul, South Korea, 11.11.2008
Optical & Electronic Properties of Conjugated Organic Materials: from Single Chains to Molecular Assemblies (invited), Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea, 10.11.2008
3D Energy Tranport in Supramolecular Assemblies (invited), Symposium 'Twenty Years of Quantum-Chemistry in Mons', University of Mons-Hainaut, Belgium, 26.09.2008
Nanomatch - a European Project: State of the Art and Perspectives, RTN NANOMATCH Meeting, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 17.-19.09.2008
Importance of Long Range Interactions in the Exciton Coupling of Conjugated Organic Materials, ICSM 2008, 06.-11.07.2008, Recife, Brazil
Monitoring Electronic Couplings in Molecular Assemblies, IMDEA Nanoscience, Madrid, Spain, 19.06.2008
Particle Sizing by Dynamic and Static Light Scattering, Molecular Nanoscience Seminar, ICMAB, Barcelona, Spain, 17.06.2008
Electronic and Optical Properties of Conjugated Materials from Single Chains to Molecular Assemblies (invited), ICMAB, Barcelona, Spain, 16.06.2008
Chromophore and Exciton Dynamics in Supramolecular Nanostructured Host Guest Compounds, E-MRS Spring Meeting 2008, 26.-30.05.2008, Strasbourg, France
Energy Transport in Supramolecular Nanostructured Materials, 9th National School on Molecular Materials, 17.-22.02.2008, Peñíscola, Spain
Lecture series Optical Spectroscopy on Organic Materials (15h), 24.-25.01.2008, ICMOL, University of Valencia, Spain
Electronic and optical properties of conjugated materials from single chains to molecular assemblies: Quantum chemistry through the eyes of a spectroscopist (invited), Laboratory for Novel Materials, University of Mons-Hainaut, Belgium, 14.12.2007
Vibronic Coupling in Conjugated Organic Molecules: From Solution to the Solid State (invited), University of Bordeaux, France, 05.11.2007
At the Crossroad of Spectroscopy, Theory and Novel Materials: Optical Excitations of Polyene-like Molecules (invited), IMDEA Institute of Nanoscience, Spain, 15.10.2007
Bandgap Engineering of Conjugated Materials by Theoretical Methods (invited) Conference ECOER'07: 4th Conference on Organic Electronics and Related Phenomena, Varenna (I), 01.-04.10.2007
Three-Dimensional Energy Transport in Highly Luminescent Host-Guest Crystals Conference ECOER'07: 4th Conference on Organic Electronics and Related Phenomena, Varenna (I), 01.-04.10.2007
Control of Intra- and Intermolecular Parameters for Energy- and Charge-Transport in Organic Materials MODECOM Meeting, Metz, 04.09.2007
p-Stacks in Organic Crystals: Spectroscopic Signatures of Excimer Formation (invited), Niels-Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 24.08.2007
At the Crossroad of Spectroscopy, Theory and Novel Materials: Optical Excitations of Polyene-like Molecules (invited), Institut for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Tübingen, Germany, 11.07.2007
Exciton Coupling in Highly Ordered Oligo- and Polythiophenes, Conference MC8: Advancing Materials by Chemical Design, London (UK), 02.-05.07.2007
Fluorinated p-Conjugated Molecules: Tuning of Molecular and Solid State Electronic Properties, Bunsentagung 2007, Graz (Austria), 16.-18.05.2007
Energy Transport in Highly Luminescent Supramolecular Nanostructured Host-Guest Crystals, Modecom Meeting, Bath, 14.05.2007
Three-Dimensional Energy Transport in Highly Luminescent Host-Guest Crystals, Inter-group Seminar, Department of Physics, University of Montréal, Canada13.04.2007
Optical Bandshapes of Conjugated Molecules: Intra- and Inter-Molecular Vibronic Coupling (invited), RPQM Inter-University Seminar on Physics and Technolgy of Materials, University of Montréal, Canada, 02.04.2007.
Tuning of Molecular and Solid State Electronic Properties by Fluorination - a Theoretical Study, ACS Meeting Chicago, 25.-29.03.2007.
Energy Transport in Supramolecular Organized Host-Guest Crystals and Electronic Structure Calculations, Modecom Meeting, Chicago, 26.03.2007.
Probing the Nanochannel walls: 2H-NMR, PL and Raman spectroscopy", Nanomatch Meeting, Varenna, 04.-06.03.2007.
Understanding Optical Properties of p -Conjugated Organic Materials: Molecules - Supramolecular Assemblies - Crystals (invited), Institute for Molecular Science, University of Valencia, 01.02.2007.
Optical Spectra of p-Conjugated Molecules: Intra- and Intermolecular Vibronic Coupling (invited), Department for Science of Materials, University of Milano Bicocca, 14.12.2006.
Energy Transfer Processes in Highly Ordered Systems of p- Conjugated Organic Molecules, Modecom Meeting, Mons, 09.11.2006.
3-Dimensional Energy Transport in Highly Luminescent Condensed Media: Quantitative Experimental and Theoretical Analysis , International Conference for Synthetic Metals, Dublin, Ireland, 02.-07.07.2006
Optical Bandgaps at the Polymer Limit: Experiment and Theory (invited), Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy, 14.06.2006
Spatial Control of Energy Transfer: Supramolecular Host-Guest Architectures, Bunsentagung, Erlangen (Germany), 25.-27.5.2006
Molecules in Nanochannels: Review & Perspectives , RTN Nanochannel Meeting, Freudenstadt, Germany, 21.02.2006
Polymer Limit of Organic p-Conjugated Materials: Experiment and Theory (invited), Department of Chemistry, University of Aarhus, 24.01.2006
Organic p-Conjugated Materials at the Polymer Limit: Experiment and Theory , Seminar Brédas Group, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (Georgia, USA), 02.12.2005
Vibronic Patterns in the optical spectra of p-conjugated molecules: from solution to the solid state (invited), Department of Chemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia (USA), 15.11.2005
Bandshapes of Optical Spectra - p-conjugated molecules in solution and in the solid state (invited), Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto (Canada), 04.11.2005
On the Nature of 'Excimers' in Molecular Crystals: Vibronic Coupling in Non-Covalently Bounded Cofacial Dimers , Seminar Brédas Group, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (Georgia, USA), 21. & 28.10.2005
p-Conjugated Organic Materials at the Polymer Limit: Experiment and Theory, ICOE, Eindhoven (NL), 21.-23.06.2005
Molecules in Nanochannels - Synthesis, Spectroscopy & Applications (invited), Van't Hoff Institute of Molecular Science, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands), 25.02.2005
Optical Properties of Conjugated Polymers by the Oligomer Approach, Institute de Matérieaux Nouveaux, Mons (Belgium), 06.12.2004
The Optical Bandgap of Conjugated Polymers by the Oligomer Approach: Experiment and Theory, Institute for Material Research, University of Limburg, Hasselt (Belgium) 17.11.2004
Molecules in Nanochannels, RTN Nanochannel Meeting, Mons (Belgium), 28.10.2004
Optical Properties of Interacting Chromophores: State of the Art and Perspectives (invited), Institute de Matérieaux Nouveaux, Mons (Belgium), 10.09.2004
Optical and Photophysical Properties of p-Stacked Polyene-like Molecules, International Conference on Science and Technology of Synthetic Metals, ICSM2004, Wollongong (Australia), 26.06.-02.07.2004
Self-Assembly of Polyene-Like Molecules: From Nanochannels to Nanoparticles, European Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, EMRS2004, Strasbourg (France), 24.05.-18.05.2004
Condensed Phases of Polyenelike Molecules: Structure and Optical Properties, Minisymposium on Photochemistry, Optical Spectroscopy and Sensors, Riezlern (Austria), 29.03.-02.04.2004
Optical Spectroscopy of Polyconjugated Organic Moleculs in Confined Environments, AK Seminar Prof. Henneberger, Humboldt-University, Berlin (Germany), 12.02.2004
Spectroscopy of Moleculs in Confined Spaces, AK Seminar Prof. Calzaferri, University of Bern (Switzerland), 28.07.2003
Spectroscopy of Moleculs in Confined Spaces (invited), SMARTON 7 Spring Meeting on 'Organic Functional Nanostructures', Spa (Belgium), 14.06.-18.06.2003
Absorption und Fluoreszenz Polyenartiger Molek?e: Theorie und Experiment, Seminar für Theoretische Chemie, Tübingen (Germany) 03.12.2002
Polarized Luminescence of Molecules Confined in Nanochannels, 
RTN Nanochannel Meeting, Tübingen (Germany), 02.10.-04.10.2002
Luminescence of Conjugated Molecules Confined in Nanochannels, International Conference on Science and Technology of Synthetic Metals, ICSM2002, Shanghai (China) , 29.06.-05.7.2002
Streulichtspektroskopie an kleinen Partikeln, Seminar Angewandte Physikalische Chemie, Tübingen (Germany) 03.12.2001
Intermolekulare Wechselwirkungen in Oligophenylenvinylen- Perhydrotriphenylen- Einschlussverbindungen, Symposium Photochemie Süddeutscher Photochemiker, Oberjoch (Germany), 13.-15.10.2000
Photophysik in Filmen und Nanopartikeln p-konjugierter Moleküle, Kolloquium für Physikalische Chemie und Theoretische Chemie, Tübingen (Germany) 15.04.1999
Photophysik in Filmen und Nanopartikeln p-konjugierter Moleküle, Symposium Photochemie Süddeutscher Photochemiker, Bosen (Germany), 16.-18.10.1998
Grundlagen der Photonenkorrelationsspektroskopie, Coulter-Praxis-Workshop Partikeltechnologie , Tübingen (Germany), 21.-23.7.1998
Ordnung und Fluoreszenz in Nanoaggregaten p-konjugierter Moleküle, Symposium Photochemie Süddeutscher Photochemiker, Munster (France), 25.-27.10.1996
Absorption and Fluorescence of Oligothiophene Aggregates, Bologna-Tübingen Joint-Meeting on Oligothiophene Thin Films, Bologna (Italy), 08.09.1995

Service to the Community:

• Organization of numerous Research Meetings, Summer Schools and Symposia
• Guest Editor for 'Materials' (Special Issue: Organic Electronic Materials)
• Peer reviewer for ACS (Acc. Chem. Res., J. Am. Chem. Soc., J. Phys. Chem., Chem. Mat.), Wiley VCH (Angew. Chem., Adv. Mater., Chem. Eur. J., ChemPhysChem, Macromol. Rapid Commun, J. Phys. Org. Chem.), AIP (J. Chem. Phys.), Elsevier (Org. El., Chem. Phys., Synth. Met., Opt. Mater., J. Mol. Struct., Polymer, J. Photochem. Photobiol. A, Thin Solid Films, Eur. Polym. J.), RSC (New J. Chem.), Springer (Theor. Chem. Acc.), MDPI (Materials), Academic Journals (Int. J. Phys. Sci.), Handawi Publishing (Int. J. Photoenergy)
• 2000 - 2003: Academic advisor in physical chemistry at the IPTC, University of Tübingen
• 2000 - 2003: Organization of student excursion, undergraduate student visits and visits of school classes to laboratories of the IPTC: experimental performances, practical courses
• 2000: Advanced training for high-school teachers in physical chemistry at the IPTC (6 x 4 h, in collaboration with Profs. G. Gauglitz and V. Hoffmann)
• 1998: Lecture on Basic Principles in Photoncorrelation Spectroscopy (2h) Beckman-Coulter-Praxis-Workshop on Particle Sizing, Tübingen (Germany)

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