received his doctorate in 1995 in Mainz, where he habilitated in 2006
conducts research in particular on the properties of short-lived "exotic" nuclei
was involved together with Meytal Duer in the discovery of the Tetra-Neutron, an isolated four-neutron system
holds a professorship at the Institute of Nuclear Physics at TU Darmstadt since 2010 and is head of the research department Nuclear Reactions at the GSI Helmoltz Center
is one of the directors of the Helmholtz Research Academy Hesse for FAIR since 2020