*09/21/1968

Since 1 April 2022
Vice-Rector for Studies, Teaching & Education

Since 2019
Speaker of the Managing Board of the Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Chemie und Physik e. V. (GDCP; society for the didactics of Chemistry and Physics)

Since 2016
Speaker of the Graduiertenkolleg zu querschnittlichen Fragen der Lehrerbildung (GKqL; graduate school for cross-disciplinary issues in teacher training)

2016–2021
Academic Director of the Centre for Teacher Training (ZLB)

2012–2016
Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Chemistry

2011–2018
Managing Editor of the Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Naturwissenschaften (ZfDN; journal for the didactics of natural sciences)

2011–2021
Chair of the Examination Board for Learning Field III – Natural and Social Science Education at Primary Level

2011–2016
Deputy Head of the Centre for Teacher Training (ZLB)

Since 2008
Member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Educational Research (IZfB) at the University of Duisburg-Essen

Since 2011
Head of the Institute for Natural and Social Science Education at Primary Level at the University of Duisburg-Essen

2008
Accepted the appointment to the Chair of Didactics of Chemistry at the University of Duisburg-Essen

Offers of professorships at the universities of Koblenz-Landau, Potsdam, Kassel (2008) and Giessen (2011, W3)

2006–2008
Deputy Director of the Department of Chemistry Education at the Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN), Kiel

2004–2006
Postdoctoral researcher in the Didactics of Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen

2004
Doctorate in the Didactics of Chemistry from the University of Essen

1999
Second state examination for school teaching at the Studienseminar Duisburg (centre for practical teacher training)

1996
State examination for school teaching at the University of Essen

2019
Poster award from the Gesellschaft für Didaktik des Sachunterrichts (GDSU; society for the didactics of natural and social sciences at primary level)

2010
Teaching award from the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Duisburg-Essen

2005, 2007
Poster award from the Gesellschaft für Didaktik des Sachunterrichts (GDSU; society for the didactics of natural and social sciences at primary level)

• Advisory member of the Committee for Schools, Education and Research for the City of Essen
• Member of the Scientific and Educational Advisory Board of the Junior-Uni Ruhr
• Member of the Managing Board of the Duisburg-Essener Universitäts-Stiftung (DEUS) foundation
• Chair of the Academic Advisory Board of the Ruhr Campus Academy gGmbH (RCA)
• Member of the Board of Partners of the Ruhr Campus Academy gGmbH (RCA)