Technical Expertise
PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in chemistry at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen-Nürnberg with focus on carbon rearrangement reactions.

1978 - 2001: R&D career at Hoechst AG in various fields, functions and sites, comprising the scale-up of newly developed products, in particular optical brighteners, dyes and pigments, pharmaceuticals, crop protection products as well as polycondensates and polymers, leading to numerous patents and commercial products.

Intellectual Property Expertise
since 2001: specialization in the field of intellectual property law; present focus on managing large patent portfolios of companies in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry

Languages
German, English, French

Admissions
European Patent Attorney

Memberships
Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office (epi)