2020-       SASOL Chair in Analytical Polymer Science, Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science, Stellenbosch University

2020-      Head of Center Macromolecular Structure Analysis, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V. (IPF)

2020-      Head of Research Group Polymer Separation, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V. and Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science, Stellenbosch University

2011-      Privatdozent at the Technischen Universität Dresden (TUD)

2007-      Head of Research Group Polymer Separation, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V. (IPF)

2000 - 2007     Scientific staff, Department Analysis, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V. (IPF)

2000        Project leader , BASF Schwarzheide GmbH

1996 - 1999     Scientific staff, Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung Mainz (MPIP)

Awards

• Innovation Award of the Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V (2017)
• IPF Advanced Young Scientist Promotion (2016)
• Habilitation Award of the Saxon State Ministry for Higher Education, Research and the Arts (2001)
• TEMPUS Diploma Award (1996)

Boards and memberships

2021-      Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Polymer Analysis and Characterization, Taylor and Francis

2019-      Member of the Editorial Board of Materials, MDPI

2020-      Vice-Chair of the Steering Board of the International Symposia on Field- and Flow-based Separations

2017     Innovation Award of the Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V.

2017      Editor of Special issue Separations, MDPI

2016      Chair of the International Symposium on Field- and Flow- based Separations in Dresden

2013-2015   Chair of the Scientific-Technical Council of the Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V.

2013      Editor of Special issue Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Springer-Verlag GmbH

2011/2013   Chair/Co-Chair of the International Symposia on Separation and Characterization of Natural and Synthetic Macromolecules

2007-      Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the International Symposium on Separation and Characterization of Natural and Synthetic Macromolecules

Member of the Association of Supporters of the IPF Dresden e.V.; German Chemical Society (GDCh), Division Macromolecular Chemistry & Division Analytical Chemistry / Separation Sciences; American Chemical Society (ACS), Division Polymer Chemistry; CASSS - An International Separation Science Society; International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Subcommittee on Molecular Characterization of Polymers

Review activities

For international funding agencies, e.g. DFG, European Commission, National Science Center Poland, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft mbH; Australian Research Council, US Army Research Office, South Africa National Research Foundation.

For a number of publishers and scientific journals, e.g. Angewandte Chemie, Macromolecules, Biomacromolecules, Analytical Chemistry, Journal of Chromatography, Langmuir, Polymer Chemistry, MCP, MRC, J. Polym. Sci. Part A, Adv. Mater., Small, J. Controlled Release.