Curriculum

• since 2017: Director International Research and Education Sustainable Collaborative Centre (ISC₃), Leuphana University Lüneburg and Bonn
• since 2016: Co-Founding-Editor und Co-Editor-in-Chief von Current Opionion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry; https://www.journals.elsevier.com/current-opinion-in-green-and-sustainable-chemistry
• since 2015: Founding Editor und Editor-in-Chief von Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy; https://www.journals.elsevier.com/sustainable-chemistry-and-pharmacy/
• since 2015: Editor von Chemosphere Environmental Pollution
• 2012 – 2016: Dean of Research at the Faculty of Sustainability, Leuphana University Lüneburg (Germany)
• 2011 on-going: Director of the Institute for Sustainable Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry Leuphana University Lüneburg (Germany)
• since 2010: Full Professor for Sustainable Chemistry and Physical Resources at the Leuphana University Lüneburg (Germany)
• 2008 – 2010: Commissioner for Environment, University Medical Centre Freiburg
• 2008 – 2010: Deputy Chair of the Commission of Environment and Sustainability University Medical Centre Freiburg
• 2005: Associate Professor at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau
• 2005: Invitation as Guest Professor at the Department of Chemistry at the UFSM (declined)
• 2003 – 2010: Head of the Section for Applied Environmental Research at the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University Medical Centre Freiburg
• 2003 – 2010: Head of the Unit for Applied Environmental Research
• 2003 – 2008: Coordinator for teaching at the Department of Environmental Health Sciences
• 2002: Visiting Professor at the Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA, Department of Chemistry, Prof. Dr. G. Klopman
• 1999 – 2003: Senior Research Fellow/Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University Medical Centre Freiburg
• 1999: Venia legendi for Environmental Chemistry and Environmental Hygiene, Habilitation thesis on pharmaceuticals in the environment, University of Freiburg
• 1992 – 1999: Research Fellow at the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University Medical Centre Freiburg
• 1990 – 1992: Head of the Chemistry Department, Institute for Applied Ecology, Freiburg, Germany

• 1986 – 1990: PhD in Chemistry on the analysis of organic sulphur compounds in the aquatic environment, University of Tübingen
• 1986 – 1990: Studies on analysis of organic pollutants and heavy metals in waste
• 1986 –1989: Remote study course “Ecology and its Biological Basis” at the German Institute of Remote Studies (certificate)
• 1986: Diploma in Chemistry on leaching of heavy metals by landfill effluents from solidified sludge sewage, University of Tübingen 
• 1980 – 1986: Studies in chemistry at the Universities of Würzburg (Vordiplom) and Tübingen (Diploma)

Member of Boards/Committees

• 2024: Member of 9th Government Commission of the State of Lower Saxony (Circular Economy)
• 2023: Member of the Academic Board of the European Centre for Advanced Studies
• 2021: Member of the European Commission’s High Level Roundtable on the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability
• since 2020: Member of the Interdivisional Committee on Green Chemistry for Sustainable Development (ICGCSD) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)
• 2017 – 2021: Member of the Advisory Committee of the Government of Lower Saxony
• since 2016: Chair of the jury of the Elsevier Green and Sustainable Chemistry Challenge Award
• 2016 – 2019: Member of the Managing Board of United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) Global Chemical Outlook II  (published spring 2019)
• 2015 – 2017: Member Advisory Council of the International Sustainable Chemistry Collaborative Centre (appointed by the German Federal Minister for the Environment)
• 2015 – 2017: Chair of the Working Group “Future Waters” within the Senate Commission on Water Research of the German Research Council (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
• 2014 – 2017: Substitute National delegate in the management board of COST-Action TD 1203 Food waste valorisation for sustainable chemicals, materials & fuels (EUBis)
• 2011 – 2017: Member of the Senate Commission on Water Research of the German Research Council (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; re-appointment 2014-2017)
• 2011 – 2021: Member of the Management Board of the European Technology Platform SusChem on behalf of the German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker)
• 2011 – 2018: Member of the Head Committee of the Division “Sustainable Chemistry” in the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, re-election 2015-2018)
• 2007 – 2010: Head of the working group “Sustainable Products” of Division Sustainable Chemistry in the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker

Research interests

Nachhaltige Chemie
Nachhaltige Pharmazie
Angewandte Chemieinformatik und Stoffchemie
Umweltverhalten von Chemikalien (Abbau, Analytik)
Stoffliche Ressourcen
Wirkung von Chemikalien (Bakterien, Gentoxizität, Mutagenität)
Risikoabschätzung

Teaching

Umweltchemie
Nachhaltige Chemie
Chemieinformatik und Stoffchemie
Umweltverhalten von Chemikalien