| Personal: | born January 8, 1963 in Berlin/Germany, |
| July 6, 1989 marriage to Randolf Köhn, | |
| Feb. 24, 1992 birth of daughter Angela in Orange/CA | |
| May 12, 2001 birth of son George in Bath | |
| Awards | |
| Oct. 1988-June 1990 | Research Fellowship of the Graduiertenkolleg of the TU-Berlin |
| July 1990 | Ph.D. prize of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie |
| Dec. 1990-June 1992 | Postdoktoral Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) |
| Education | |
| 1982-1987 | Studies in Chemistry at the Technische Universität Berlin
"Diplomarbeit"(master thesis) in organometallic chemistry with Prof. Dr. H. Schumann |
| 1987-1988 | exchange student (exchange fellowship) at the University of Oklahoma
![]() with Prof. Dr. K. M. Nicholas. Research on "Fluorenyl Iron Complexes" |
| 1988-1990 | work on my Ph.D. in chemistry at the TU Berlin about "Synthesis and X-ray Analysis on Organolanthanide Alkoxides" with Prof. Dr. H. Schumann |
| 1990-1992 | Postdoctoral research at the University of California, Irvine
with Prof. Dr. W. J. Evans about "Reactions of Organosamarium Complexes with Hydrazin Ligands" |
| Professional activities | |
| 1983 | Research student with Prof. Dr. P. Brätter in analytical chemistry at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute for Nuclear Research in Berlin |
| 1985-1986 | Research student with Prof. Dr. Hugo at the Institute for Technical Chemistry of the TU-Berlin |
| 1992-1994 | Research assistant (X-ray structural analysis of small air sensitive molecules) with Prof. Dr. H. Schumann at the Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry of the TU-Berlin |
| 1994-1999 | Research and teaching assistant at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
with Prof. Dr. A. C. Filippou . Topic: X-ray structural analysis of small air sensitive molecules |
| 1999-2002 | Research assistant at the TU-Berlin with Prof. Dr. H. Schumann and at the University of Bath |
| 2002-2004 | X-ray Technician at the University of Bath |
| since 2005 | X-ray Officer at the University of Bath |