Short CV

1942                  Born in Berlin, Germany

1961-1968    Study of Physics at TU Berlin

1968-1970     PhD at MPI Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg

1971-1973     Postdoc at Niels Bohr Inst., Copenhagen, Denmark

1975                   Habilitation at University of Heidelberg

1979-1980      Visiting Scientist, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, USA

1982-2012      Professor of Physics, University of Giessen, Germany

1993-1998      Research Director of GSI, Darmstadt, Germany

2012                    Professor Emeritus

Research in     nuclear physics: fission (shape-) isomers, heavy ion  reactions, 

                                hadron physics: photoproduction of mesons off nucleons and nuclei,

                                modification of meson properties in the nuclear medium