Short biography

1983-1991	Study of history, Political science, and Economic Geography at the universities Hannover, Hamburg and Guadalajara (Mexico)
1991	Magister Artium
1995	Promotion at the Hamburg university
1996-2001	Postdoc at the Bielefeld university
2002	Habilitation at the University of Cologne, venia legendi for "Neuere Geschichte"
2004	University professor at the WWU Münster