First education: apprenticeship as iron-conrete- and underground construction draftsman; second education: final examination at the AKAD Zurich, studies in physics at the ETH Zurich, Ph.D. in physics at the ETH Zurich; currently he works as Senior Scientist und Head of Clean Rooms at the Institute of Mechanical Systems ETH Zurich; one of five candidates from Switzerland in the 1992 ESA selection, but not selected.