FLOWER BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONCurriculum vitae

1974 - 1979 - Study of biology and chemistry at the University of Bonn; thesis: "Blütenentwicklung bei Monodora crispata (Annonaceae)" ["Flower ontogeny in Monodora crispata (Annonaceae)"]

1979 - Price of the Konrad-Adenauer-foundation (city Bonn)

1979 - 1982 - PhD thesis with Prof. Dr. Peter Leins (Botanical Institute of the University of Bonn): “Zur Organsequenz und Karpellentwicklung in den Blüten einiger Magnoliiden” ["Organ sequence and carpel development in the flowers of some Magnoliidae"]

1982 - Promotion

seit 1983 - 'Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin' at the Institute for Systematic Botany and Plant Geography (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg); since summer 2001 renamend as Department Biodiversity and Plant Systematics at the newly established Heidelberg Institute for Plant Science, since 2011 in COS Heidelberg

1993 - Habilitation

1994 - Venia legendi 'Botany'

2000 - apl. Professor