[1][2] She is a full professor and the director of the institute of theoretical and computational chemistry at the University of Düsseldorf.
[1] She finished her doctorate in Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Bonn under the supervision of Sigrid D. Peyerimhoff in 1980.
[1] She did a postdoc in the Theoretical Physics Department of Stockholm University (Sweden) in the group of Per E. M.
[2] Her research focuses on the development and application of theoretical and computational excited-state electronic structure methods – also for biomolecules.
[6] Some of her most cited publications are: She is a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.