Professor
Department of plant physiology
State Research Center for Optics and Material Sciences
United States of America
1987 Examination in Biology, University of Münster 1990 Dr. rer. nat (Ph.D.) University of Bayreuth 1990-1998 Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Osnabrück 1995 Habilitation (Plant Physiology), University of Osnabrück 1998 Assistant-Professor of Plant Physiology 1999 Call as Professor for Plant Physiology, University of Kaiserslautern
Our group works on transport proteins in plants and bacteria. Special aspects are currently ATP transporters in plant plasma- and endomembranes, and vacuolar located sugar- and dicarbonic-acid transporters. We wish to understand transporter functions on the biochemical level (e.g. mode of transport, substrate specificity) and also on the physiological level (implications of transporters for plant primary metabolism, development and adaptations).