Studies at the University of Osnabrück, Diploma in Physics and Doctor of Natural Sciences. Several years as scientist and developer at the Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique, CNRS, Paris, France, at the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), Puebla, Mexico and at Philips Research in Hamburg, Aachen and Eindhoven, Netherlands; awarded by the ROSEN Group and the University of Osnabrück for outstanding achievements in the field of physics; scholarship from the Volkswagen Foundation and the Graduate College of the German Research Foundation.

Legal training at the District Court of Düsseldorf, the German Patent and Trademark Office, the Federal Patent Court and the Distance-Learning University of Hagen. Further legal training and employment as a patent attorney with the patent law firm Boehmert & Boehmert. Patent Attorney with Eisenführ Speiser since 2005.