| 1977 | born in Hildesheim |
| 1996-2001 | Studies of Industrial Mathematics at TU Kaiserslautern, Lund University, NTNU Trondheim and IIT Madras, Traineeships at Bosch and DLR, Awardee of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes |
| 2001 | Diplom in Industrial Mathematics, TU Kaiserslautern |
| 2002 | Degree of ECMI-Postgraduate Programme "Mathematics in Industry", Hansjörg Wacker Prize by ECMI |
| 2002-2005 | Ph.D.-Studies at Fraunhofer ITWM Kaiserslautern and OCIAM Oxford, Young Researcher Fellow at M.I.T. Cambridge |
| 2005 | Ph.D. in Mathematics (Dr. rer. nat.), TU Kaiserslautern, with Prof. H. Neunzert |
| 2005-2006 | DAAD-Lecturer, Kathmandu University, Nepal |
| 2006-2008 | Research Assistent, TU Kaiserslautern |
| 2006- | Scientific Advisor, Fraunhofer ITWM Kaiserslautern |
| 2008-2010 | Junior-Professor for Mathematical Modeling, TU Kaiserslautern and Rheinland-Pfalz Excellence Center for Mathematical and Computational Modelling (Offer by Universität Hamburg rejected) |
| 2009-2010 | Visiting Professor (Chair) for Numerical Mathematics, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
| 2010-2017 | Professor for Applied Mathematics (Mathematical and Computational Modeling), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (Offers by Universität Bayreuth, Universität Paderborn and Universität Bonn rejected) |
| 2017- | Chair for Modeling and Numerics, Trier University |
