since 2022 |
Spokesperson of the profile "New Materials" in the Partnership for Innovation, Education and Research PIER PLUS - Hamburg |
since 2020 |
Principal investigator in the Cluster of Excellence - Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg |
since 2020 |
Full professor and Director of the Institute for Materials and X-Ray Physics (M-2) at Technische Universität Hamburg TUHH and of the research group on High-Resolution X-Ray Analytics of Materials in the Photon Science Division at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY |
since 2019 |
Principal investigator in the Data Science HELMHOLTZ Graduate School Hamburg for the Structure of Matter (DASHH) |
since 2018 |
Speaker of the research field "Advanced Materials" at Hamburg University of Technology |
since 2012 |
Member and project leader within the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 986, "Tailor-Made Multi-Scale Materials Systems", Hamburg |
2012-2020 |
Associate Professor at Hamburg University of Technology, Institute of Materials Physics |
2011-2012 |
Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the Pontifical Catholic University, Santiago de Chile |
2010/2011 |
Guest Scientist in the Department of Biomaterials (Prof. Peter Fratzl), Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam (Germany) |
2008-2014 |
Lecturer ("Privatdozent") in Experimental Physics at Saarland University
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2007 |
Habilitation Thesis, Saarland University, Mentor: Klaus Knorr
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2006/2007 |
Interim Professorship in Experimental Physics at Saarland University |
2002 |
Appointment to Academic Counselor (”Akademischen Rat”) of the Department of Physics and Mechatronics Engineering, Saarland University |
07/2000- 09/2001 |
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Physics and School of Applied Sciences and Engineering , Harvard University, Cambridge (Massachusetts, USA) |
07/1999- 09/2001 |
Post-Doc in Peter Pershan's X-ray group, Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge (Massachusetts, USA), within a scholarship of the German Research Foundation (DFG), "Synchrotron X-ray Scattering Studies at the Free Surface of Liquid Metals". |
1999 |
Ph. D. in Physics with honors (”summa cum laude”), Thesis title ”Structure and Thermodynamics of Condensates in Porous Glasses ”, Department of Physics, Saarland University, Advisor: Klaus Knorr |
1995 |
Diploma in Physics, Saarland University, Thesis title: ”Design and setup of a low temperature x-ray diffractometer”, Advisor: Klaus Knorr |
1989-1995 |
Studies in Physics at Saarland University |
1988 |
Abitur, Gymnasium Ottweiler (Saarland, Germany) |
1975-1979 |
Primary School in Urexweiler (Saarland, Germany) |