Study and doctorate

1992-1997: Teacher study programme at the University of Bielefeld with the subjects Mathematics and Chemistry for lower and upper secondary school - Degree: First State Exam

2000-2002: Ph.D. at the TU Braunschweig (Dr. rer. nat.) with the thesis Learning Control in the "Networked Study - Chemistry"; Development and evaluation of a concept using the example of the chapter "Addition of halogens to double bonds."

Professional career

1998-2000: Teacher training phase in Paderborn - Degree: Second State Exam

2000-2003: Lecturer at the TU Braunschweig, Department of Chemistry and Chemistry Education

2002-2009: Post Doc at the TU Braunschweig, Department of Chemistry and Chemistry Education

2005-2008: Spokeswoman of the Junior Scientists of the Department of Chemistry Education of the GDCh

2010: Habilitation with the thesis ChiLe - Chemistry interactive Learning: Curricular Innovation, learning processes and personal aspects at the TU Braunschweig

April to September 2009: Professor of Physical Chemistry and Chemistry Education at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau

October 2009 to February 2014: Professor of Chemistry and Chemistry Education at the University of Hildesheim

November 2012: Short Term Internship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at Shizuoka University, Japan

Since March 2014: Professor of Chemistry Education at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg

2015-2017: Member of the study commission of the Faculty V

2017-2019: Dean of Studies of the Faculty V