Professional Career:

1959 - 1965
Student of Medicine in Hamburg; Doctorate on „Glycoproteins in the aorta wall“

1965 - 1967
Resident at the University Hospital of Hamburg, Dpt. of Internal Medicine (Prof. A. Jores), Dpt. of Gynaekology (Prof. Thomsen). Dpt. of Surgery at the Hospital Alten Eichen Hamburg, Institute for Biochemistry at the University of Hamburg (Prof. Gercken) (enzymatic Analytics)

1967 - 1969
Research Associate at the Hormone Laboratory, Dpt. of Internal Medicine University Hospital Hamburg, Clinical Chemistry, Lipid Research (Prof. K.D. Voigt)

1970 - 1976
Research Associate at the Institute of Physiological Chemistry, University of Cologne (Prof. H. Debuch, Prof. W. Stoffel): Lipid Research

1977 - 1978
Resident at the Dpt. of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Cologne (Prof. R. Gross): Clinical Onkology and Infektiology, Accreditation as Specialist for Laboratory Medicine

1978 - 2001
Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Medical Mikrobiology, Infektiology and Hygiene at the University of Cologne (Prof. G. Pulverer, Prof. Krönke). Medical Mikrobiology, chemical environmental Analysis. Accreditation as Specialist for Medizical Mikrobiology and Epidemiology

Since 2007
Research of Tumour-Immunology at the Immunologic and Onkologic Centre of Cologne (IOZK)