1993-1998 Study of Dental Medicine at the University of Witten/Herdecke

1993-1998 Study of Humanities (Studium fundamentale) at the University of Witten/Herdecke

1997 Semester abroad at the University of Pennsylvania/Philadelphia, USA

1997-2000 Study of Physics at the Ruhr-University Bochum

2000 Doctoral thesis (Dr. med. dent)

1999-2003 Scientific assistant at the University of Witten/Herdecke, Department for

Conservative Dentistry

1999- 2011 Senior Lecturer and Head of the teaching course for Preventive Dentistry at the University Witten/Herdecke

since 2002 Private practice in Essen

2002-2005 Postgraduate program for TMD and restorative dentistry at the L.D. Pankey Institute, Miami, USA

since 2004 Member of the German Society of Endodontology and Oral Traumatology (DGET)

since 2007 Certified Member of the European Society of Endodontology (ESE)

since 2009 CEO and Co-Founder of the Institute for Oral Medicine at the University of Witten/ Herdecke (ORMED)

since 2011 Board member of the German Association for Micro-Invasive Dentistry (DGmikro)

2012, 2016 Congress Committee Member of the European Society of Microscope Dentistry (ESMD)

Lecturer of postgraduate training programs in Hannover, Leipzig, Berlin, Munich, Duesseldorf, Essen and Stuttgart etc.

15 publications and over 300 national and international oral presentations/ poster presentations and workshops, three instructional

clinical video projects (DVD).

C L I N I C A L E X P E R I E N C E

• Microscope supported restorative dentistry and endodontics

• Preventive dentistry

S C I E N T I F I C P R O J E C T S

• In vitro and in vivo research projects for development and testing of oral hygiene products

• Development of minimal- and micro-invasive endodontic and restorative techniques

• Improvements of dental microscopes and loupes

• Clinical ergonomic investigations