Curriculum Vitae
Employment
2012 | Professor (W3) for Computational Nanoscience: Tübingen University |
2012 (Apr-Sep) | Professor (stand-in): Düsseldorf University, Germany |
2006-2012 | Leader of the Independent Junior Research Group "Colloids at Interfaces": Mainz University, Germany |
2002-2006 | Research Assistent: Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, Germany (Dept. Dietrich) |
2001-2002 | Lynen fellowship of the Humboldt foundation: Special Research Centre for the Subatomic Structure of Matter (CSSM), Adelaide, Australia (Host: Prof. Tony Thomas) |
Higher Education
2000 (Oct) | PhD Tübingen University, Germany, Supervisor: Dr. Reinhard Alkofer (now at Graz University) |
1997 (Dec) | Diplom (M.Sc.) in Physics, Tübingen University |
1991 (June) | Abitur at the Special School for Math & Sciences Chemnitz |
Scholarships and Awards
2004 (Mar-Apr) | Visiting fellow of the Alexander-von-Humbold foundation | |
2002 (Feb-Jul) | Feodor Lynen fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation (Adelaide University, with Prof. A. W. Thomas) | |
1993 (Aug)- 1994 (May) | Fulbright scholarship for the academic year at State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA | |
1991-1997 | Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Foundation) | |
1990 and 1991 | Participation in the International Physics Olympiad for High School Students (Groningen/Netherlands, Havana/Cuba), 4th prize in both years | |
Languange skills
English (fluent); Russian (good); French, Spanish (working knowledge)