| | Studied Physics and Mathematics at the University of Utrecht |
| 1969 | Staff member at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Utrecht University, then Assistant Professor |
| 1976 | Morris Loeb Lecturer at Harvard University |
| 1976-1977 | Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) at Stanford University |
| since 1977 | Full professor at Utrecht University |
| 1988 | Guest professor of Boston University |
| 1989 | Guest professor of Duke University, Durham NC |
| | Simon Stevin Leerstoel, Antwerpen, Belgium |
| 1972 | B.Sc., M.Sc. in Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 1975 | Master of Science in Medical Radiological Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| 1979 | Doctor of Science in Radiation Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| 1979-1980 | Postdoctoral Fellow in Radiobiology, Harvard School of Public Health |
| 1980-1984 | Research Fellow in Pathology, Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute |
| 1984-1985 | Private Investor |
| 1986 | Co-founder and Director, The Morningside Group Limited |
| | Company Directorship: |
| since 1986 | Hang Lung Group Limited, one of the largest China-focused real estate companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange |
| since 1993 | Morningside (China) Company Ltd., an investment management company which manages a portfolio of operating companies in mainland China in diverse industries including paper, building materials, machinery, media, communication, biotechnology and health care |
| since 1996 | Natural Polymer International Corporation, Richardson, Texas, a technology company which develops and manufactures biodegradable plastic substitute materials |
| The Morningside Foundation |
| since 2002 | Morningside (HBR) Limited, Publisher of the Harvard Business Review, Chinese edition |
| Bright Wealth Resources Limited, Publisher of Forbes magazine, Chinese edition |
| since 2004 | Serica Technologies, Medford, Massachusetts, a clinical development stage biotech company with a technology for soft tissue regeneration |
| | Vaccine Technologies Inc, Boston, Massachusetts and Haikou, China, developer of a Hepatitis B vaccine using a novel route of antigen presentation |
| since 2005 | Metacure, Inc, Israel and New York based company, maker of an implantable device which uses electrical signals to reduce appetite for food as treatment for obesity and diabetes |
| since 2006 | Critical Biologics Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, a biotech company developing diagnostics and a biologic therapeutic for sepsis and end-stage renal disease |
| since 2007 | Stealth Peptide Inc., a biotech company developing a series of small peptides which protect the mitochondria from oxidative stress |
| Matrivax, a biotech company based in Boston, Massachusetts and Haikou, China, with novel technology for making multivalent polysaccharide vaccines |
| since 2008 | Inimex Pharmaceuticals, Vancouver, Canada, developing first-in-class drugs for infectious diseases and cancer that work by triggering the body s innate immune system without causing inflammation |
| 1979 | Dipl.-Ing. (Master of Engineering), Technische Universität Wien |
| 1980 | Dr. techn., Technische Universität Wien |
| 1984 | "Universitätsdozent" for Applied and Numerical Mathematics, Technische Universität Wien |
| 1979-1980 | Research Assistant, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA); Laxenburg, Austria |
| 1980-1981 | Research Assistant, Mathematics Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
| 1981-1982 | Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department and Computer Science Department, University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| 1982-1989 | Assistant Professor, Institute for Applied and Numerical Mathematics, Vienna University of Technology |
| 1989 | Visiting Professor, Centre des Mathematiques Appliquées, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris |
| 1989-1990 | Professor (C3), Department of Mathematics, Technische Universität Berlin |
| 1990-1991 | Full Professor, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA |
| 1991-1998 | Professor (C4), Department of Mathematics, Technische Universität Berlin |
| 1998-1999 | o. Univ. Professor for Analysis, Institute of Analysis and Numerical Mathematics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria |
| 1999-2007 | o. Univ. Professor for Applied Analysis, Department of Mathematics, University of Vienna |
| since 2007 | Professor for Applied Mathematics, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge and Professor of Applied Analysis, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna |
| 1970 | Professur in Frankfurt |
| 1971 | Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Physik in Dortmund |
| 1984-1986 | Präsident der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft |
| seit 1987 | Vorstandsmitglied der Kernforschungsanlage Jülich (KFA) |
| 1993-1997 | Vorsitzender der Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren |
| 1995-1996 | Präsident der Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte |
| 1990-2006 | Vorsitzender des Vorstands der Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH |
| 1999-2003 | Vorsitzender des Deutschen Verbandes Technisch-Wissenschaftlicher Vereine |
| 2000-2006 | Vorsitzender des Lenkungsausschusses "Wissenschaft im Dialog" |
| 2006-2012 | Präsident der Jacobs University Bremen |
