Curriculum Vitae

Personal Details:

• Date of birth: 1965, Zweibrücken, Germany
• Nationality: German

Education:

• Studies and Conferral of a doctorate (physics), University of Kaiserslautern, 1985-1994
• State Doctorate, University of Kaiserslautern, 1999-2002

Research Experience:

• 1994-1996:
  Feodor-Lynen/JSPS postdoc grant of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Stiftung at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• 1996-1998:
  Head of Development for the division "system technologies", project management, Deutsche Babcock Turbo-Lufttechnik GmbH
• 1999:
  Grant of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for the State Doctorate
• 1999-2005:
  Research group leader, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
• since 2005:
  Professor of experimental physics at the University of Kassel, Germany
• 2007-2010:
  PI in the BMBF Research Focus "FLASH"
• 2010-2016:
  Head of Center for Interdisciplinary Nanostructures Science and Technology (CINSaT) of the University of Kassel (40 working groups)
• 2013-2016:
  Coordinator of the project "Electron Dynamics of Chiral Systems (ELCH)" of the Hessian LOEWE Research Initiatives Network
• 2015-2018:
  Spokesman proLOEWE, Association of Hessian LOEWE projects
• 2015-2021:
  Vice President Research at the University of Kassel
• 2016-2019:
  PI in the DFG Research Unit 1789 "Interatomic and Intermolecular Coulombic Decay"
• since 2018:
  PI in the DFG Collaborative Research Centre 1319 "Extreme Light for Sensing and Driving Molecular Chirality" 1st and 2nd funding period
• Over 250 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals