– Born in Locarno, Switzerland in 1972

– Schools in Gordola and Highschool in Locarno, Switzerland

– Study of Physics at the ETH, Zürich, Switzerland

– PhD in Theoretical Physics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and DESY Laboratory, Zeuthen, Germany, 1999
  Thesis on "The Static Potential in the SU(2) Higgs Model"

– Postdoc at University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

– Assistent at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in the group of Computational Physics

– CERN Fellow

– Habilitation at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2007
  Thesis on "Gauge Theories with Boundaries on the Lattice"

– Since October 2006 Professor for "High Performance Computing in Theoretical Physics" at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal

– Spokesperson of the DFG Research Unit "Future Methods for studying confined gluons in QCD" (FOR 5269)

– Dean of the School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

– Coordinator of the International Master's Programm "Computer Simulation in Science"