born 1963 1982-1987 Dental School at the University of Cologne 1988-1989 Captain of the Medical Staff in the German Air Force 1989 Dr. med. dent., 1989-1992 periodontal training at the Dept. of Periodontology of the University of Münster 1992 Fachzahnarzt für Parodontologie (Specialist for Periodontology) 1992-2004 Dept. of Conservative Dentistry at the University of Heidelberg, since 1995 Clinical Director, since 2000 Head of the Section of Periodontology 1997 Habilitation (PhD) 2003 Associate Professor (Heidelberg) since 2004 Chair of the Dept. of Periodontology at the Center of Dentistry and Oral Medicine (Carolinum), Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt 2012-2014 Managing Director of the Center of Dentistry and Oral Medicine (Carolinum), Frankfurt 2011-2016 President of the German Society of Periodontology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Parodontologie [DG PARO]) Academic Editor of PLOS One.