| 1997 | Diploma in Physics, FU Berlin |
| 2003 | PhD in Physics, Universitaet Augsburg ("summa cum laude") |
| 1999-2003 | Research assistant, Center for Electronic Correlations and Magnetism, Universitaet Augsburg |
| 2003-2005 | Postdoc with Prof. P. J. Hirschfeld at the University of Florida |
| 1992-1993 | Erasmus scholarship at the Universiy of Reading (UK) |
| 1998-1999 | PhD scholarship at the Graduiertenkolleg "Kollektive Phaenomene im Festkoerper", Universitaet Karlsruhe |
| 2003 | Prize of the Universitaet Augsburg |
| 2003-2005 | Feodor-Lynen fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation |