Curriculum Vitae
| Month&Year | Function | Institution |
| 2004 – now | Professor emeritus | Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin |
| 1986-2004 | Director | Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin |
| 1981-1982 | Visiting Professor | Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1979 | Visiting Professor | Dept. of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena |
| 1973-1986 | Professor & Director | Institute for Physical Chemistry, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich |
| 1968-1973 | Professor & Director | Institute for Physical Chemistry, Technical University, Hannover (presently Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University) |
| 1965-1968 | Assistant & Lecturer | Assistant & Lecturer |
| 1962-1965 | Technical University, Munich: Dr. rer. nat in 1965 | |
| 1959-1961 | Technical University, Stuttgart: Dipl. Phys. in 1961 | |
| 1958-1959 | Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich | |
| 1957-1958 | University of Paris | |
| 1955-1957 | Technical University, Stuttgart | |
| 1936 | born | October 10, in Stuttgart, Germany |