Vita:
2016 - 2017: Head of Department of Palaeontology & Stratigraphy
Since 2012: Dean of Geosciences Examination Board
Since 2011: Professor of Palaeoecology & Micropalaeontology (associate professor)
2010: Habilitation: "Cambrian life in Mediterranean carbonate environments and consequences for the geological reconstruction of the early Palaeozoic Perigondwana", facultas docendi & venia legendi in palaeontology
1996: Awardee of the "Julius-Weißbach Award for Excellence in Teaching"
1995: Assistant professor, lecturer & research associate at Department of Palaeontology (Freiberg University)
1993: Head of Rector's Office of Freiberg University
1992: Assistant professor at Department of Palaeontology (Freiberg University)
1992: Phd thesis: "Facies analysis of the Cambrian carbonates of Germany" (Freiberg University)
1989: Diploma thesis: "Palaeontology, lithology and depositional history of the Cambrian carbonates of the Görlitz synclinorium (East Germany)" (Freiberg University)
1984: Studies in geology & palaeontology (Freiberg University)
Member of the International Subcommission on Cambrian Stratigraphy (ISCS) of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (voting member)
Member of the ICS Working Group on the Cambrian Terreneuvian Series and Fortunian Stage (voting member)
Member of the ICS Working Group on the Cambrian Stage 2 (voting member)
Member of IGCP 668 Working Group "Equatorial Gondwanan History and Early Palaeozoic Evolutionary Dynamics"
Member of IGCP 735 Working Group "Rocks and the Rise of Ordovician Life (Rocks n'ROL)"
Member of German Commission on Proterozoic-Silurian Stratigraphy
Dean of the Geosciences Examination Board of Freiberg University
Member of the German-Jordanian Society Rec. Soc.
Member of the Verein der Freunde & Förderer der TU Bergakademie Freiberg e. V.
Member of the Förderkreis Freiberger Geowissenschaften e. V.
Editor-in-chief of "psf - Paläontologie, Stratigraphie, Fazies" (Freiberger Forschungshefte)
Editorial board "Acta Geologica Polonica"
Editorial board "Zeitschrift für Geologische Wissenschaften"
Assoc. editor "Carnets de Géologie - Notebooks on Geology"
Assoc. editor "Jordan Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences"