B.S. (Chemistry) Southwestern University, TX, USA (1995); Ph.D. (Chemistry) Stanford University (2002); Beam Line Scientist SSRL, SLAC, Stanford, University (2001-2003); Staff Scientist SSRL, SLAC, Stanford, University (2003-2009); Assistant Professor Cornell University, NY, USA (2009-2012); Research Group Leader at the MPI for Bioinorganic Chemistry; today: MPI CEC (2011-2017); Group Leader PINK Beamline, Energy Materials In-Situ Laboratory, Helmholtz Centre, Berlin (since 2012); Adjunct Associate Professor Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, NY, USA (since 2012); Honorary Professor Ruhr University Bochum (since 2014); Director of the Department of Inorganic Spectroscopy at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (since 2017).