Studied at the University of Osnabrück, graduating with a Master's degree in Physics in 1997, Doctor of Science 2000; research work at the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), Puebla, Mexico 1998 and in the Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique, CNRS, Paris, France 1999.

Research work at Philips Research in Hamburg, Aachen and Eindhoven from 2000-2002.

Legal training and employment as patent attorney at the law and patent attorney firm of Boehmert & Boehmert from 2002 to 2005, part of that time spent at the District Court Düsseldorf, the German Patent and Trademark Office, the German Patent Court and the Distance-Learning University of Hagen.

At Eisenführ Speiser (Bremen) since 2005.

Member of the Vocational Training Board for Patent Paralegals, Chairman of the Northern Germany Examination Board for Patent Paralegals.

Awarded by the ROSEN Group and the University of Osnabrück for outstanding work in the field of physics. Scholarships of the Volkswagen Foundation and the German Research Foundation (DFG).