Personal data: 

• born: December 1962, in Zwiesel, Germany
• citizenship: german
• married 

Education and Academic Career: 

• since 2012: Professor (W2 Analysis), Paderborn University
• 2006-2012: Professor (W2 Analysis), TU Clausthal
• 2005-06: Research associate, SFB/TRR 12 "Symmetries and Universality in Mesoscopic Systems", Bochum
• winter term 2004/05: temporal full professorship (C4 Algebra), TU Darmstadt
• 2004-2005: Visiting researcher, University of Amsterdam; funded by an NWO grant (with T. Koornwinder)
• 2000-2004: Lecturer (C2, non-permanent), Göttingen University 
• 1999: Habilitation in Mathematics, TU Munich, with a thesis in Dunkl theory
• 1996/97: Visiting researcher, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA, hosted by C.F. Dunkl. Funded by a grant of the German Science Foundation (DFG).
• 1992-2000: Postdoc and Assistant Professor (C1), Department of Mathematics, TU Munich
• 1992: PhD in Mathematics, TU Munich (summa cum laude), with a thesis in hypergroup theory. Advisors: Rupert Lasser, Elmar Thoma
• 1989-92: Research associate, GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health Munich (now Hemholtz Munich)
• 1988: Diploma in Mathematics, TU Munich 
• 1982 - 88: Study of Mathematics (Minor Physics), TU Munich and ETH Zürich

Fellowships: 

• 1984-88: Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)
• 1982-88: Stiftung Maximilianeum (a scholarship for highly talented Bavarian students) 

Service:

• Studies in Applied Mathematics SAPM (Wiley), member of the editorial board since 2020.
• Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik, member of the selection board, 2012-17
• Guest editor of SIGMA, Special issue on Dunkl operators and related topics, 2008-09
• Co-editor (with P. Graczyk and M. Yor), Harmonic & Stochastic analysis of Dunkl processes, Travaux en cours 71, 2008
   

Miscellaneous:

• since 2023: Member of the SFB/TRR 358 "Integral structures in Geometry and Representation Theory" (Bielefeld and Paderborn)
• 2006: Offer of an associate professorship at KU Leuven (declined)
• 2002-2004: Faculty member, DFG Research Training Group "Groups and Geometry" GRK~535, Göttingen

Selected publications: 

• Generalized Hermite polynomials and the heat equation for Dunkl operators. Commun. Math. Phys. 192 (1998), 519--542.
• (With M. Voit) Markov Processes related with Dunkl operators. Adv. Appl. Math. 21 (1998), 575--643.
• Positivity of Dunkl's intertwining operator. Duke Math. J. 98 (1999), 445--463.
• A positive radial product formula for the Dunkl kernel. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 355 (2003), 2413-2438 
• Dunkl Operators: Theory and Applications. In: Lecture Notes in Math. vol. 1817, pp. 93--136. (Lecture Notes of the 2002 SIAM Euro Summer School Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions; eds. E. Koelink, W. van Assche); Springer-Verlag, 2003. 
• Bessel convolutions on matrix cones. Compositio Math. 143 (2007), 749-779.
• (with T. Koornwinder and M. Voit): Limit transitions between hypergeometric functions of type BC and type A. Compositio Math. 149 (2013), 1381-1400.
• (with M. Voit) Beta distributions and Sonine integrals for Bessel functions on symmetric cones.  Stud. Appl. Math. 141 (2018), 474-500.