学术经历：1978, Ph.D, Chemistry, Bochum University;

1993, Heisenberg Fellowship & the Baetjer Lectures of Princeton University;

1994~, Full Professor of Chemistry at Bielefeld University.

研究领域：燃烧化学机理和燃烧诊断技术、纳米材料气相沉积、传递科学等。教授在诸多领域都获得了显著成绩并称为燃烧学界大师级学者，于2007年被德国总统Horst Köhler授予the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

国际学术职务：

From 2004 to 2007, a member of the Review Board；

From 2007 to 2008, President of the Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie;

Now, a member in scientific organisations and boards；

Now，a member of the Board of Trustees of the Volkswagen Foundation, the International Advisory Board and the Selection Committee of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Now, a Fellow of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry

Since 2007, a member of the Senate and Joint Committee of the German Research Foundation；

Since 2008, a member of the Senate of the Hermann von Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers;

Since 2002, a member of the Board of Directors of the International Combustion Institute；

since 2007，a member of the Board of the German Section of combustion institute;

Since 2004, Editor of "Combustion and Flame", and now also served as a member of the Editorial Boards of several journals, e.g., "Progress in Energy and Combustion Science".

发表论文：Over 180 papers have been published in Science, Combust. Flame, Prog. Energy Combust. Sci., Phys. Chem., Proc. Combust. Inst., J. Phys. Chem. A, Appl. Phys. B.