| 2014-16 | Consultant at Max-Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle/Saale, Germany | ||
| 2011 | Professor emeritus at RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany | ||
| 2009 | Fellow of the American Physical Society | ||
| 2007 – 2017 | Chairman of Magnetism Division and Working Group Magnetism of the German Physical Society; 2015 Honorary Member | ||
| 2005 | Sabbatical at IBM Almaden Research, CA, USA | ||
| 2000 | Sabbatical UCSD, La Jolla, CA, USA | ||
| 1996 | Sabbatical UCSD, La Jolla, CA, USA Sabbatical KU Leuven, Belgium | ||
| 1991-92 | Stanford University, USA, Guest Professorship Award by Volkswagen Foundation | ||
| 1989/1990 | IBM Almaden Research, San José, CA, USA, Guest Professor | ||
| 1987 – 2011 | Director and Professor at Physics Institute, Chair IIA, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany | ||
| 1986 | IBM World Trade Summer Faculty Guest Professor, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA | ||
| 1983 | Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, USA, Guest Professor | ||
| 1981 | IBM Award as Visiting Professor at IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA | ||
| 1980 – 1987 | Professor at II. Physics Institute, University of Cologne, Germany | ||
| 1975 – 1980 | Research Assitant and Permanent Staff Member at Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart | ||
| 1974 – 1975 | Postdoctoral IBM World Trade Fellowship at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA | ||
| 1973 | Dr. sc.nat. and Research Assistant at ETH Zürich | ||
| 1968 | Diploma in Physics at ETH Zürich, Switzerland | ||
| 1963 | Study of Physics at ETH Zürich, Switzerland | ||
| 1963 | Scholarship Award by the Bavarian Government for best Gymnasium Graduates in Bavaria, Germany | ||
| 1958 – 1963 | Gymnasium in Memmingen/Bavaria | ||
| 1957 | Graduation from High School in Themar/DDR | ||
| 1943 | Born in Themar/Thuringia, Germany |