- University of Stuttgart, Germany (BS, MS)
- University of Stuttgart (PhD with Sabine Laschat)
- Stanford (Postdoc with Barry M. Trost)
- ETH Zurich (Habilitation, 2007-2010)
- EPFL (since 2010) – currently Full Professor and Director of the Institute of Chemical Sciences & Engineering (ISIC)
Research Interests: asymmetric catalysis, organometallic chemistry, C-H functionalization, ligand design