Scientific background: studies in chemistry at universities in Bonn and Münster

Doctorate in organic chemistry 1985

Job at Beilstein Institute for Organic Chemistry in Frankfurt since 1985

Since 1990 active for BASF Group Information Center in Ludwigshafen
      - starting as researcher
      - three years later heading a 1st group of researchers
      - growing group of information analysts serving BASF customers worldwide
      - responsibility to integrate newer technologies: visualization, text-mining, customer repositories

Active participation in PDG Patent Documentation Group and PDR Pharma Documentation Ring
Scientific counsel for ICIC and AI-SDV conferences

After retirement starting a brain train - resulting in i3 as an information analysis software