Career history

2023

Appointment as Professor for Scattering Based Characterization Techniques in Fibre and Polymer Science. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Fibre and Polymer Technology, Teknikringen 56-58, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden

2022

Appointment as Lead Scientist Sustainable Materials (FS-SMA) for functionalised polymeric materials on bio-basis at DESY

2016

Appointment as Adjunct Professor in Synchrotron Radiation Characterization in Fibre and Polymer Technology. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Fibre and Polymer Technology, Teknikringen 56-58, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden

2006-2022

Staff scientist & Beamline responsible P03/MiNaXS beamline at PETRA III; Lines of Research: Hybrid nanomaterials for energy and information technology, in situ und operando methods, microfluidics; please click here for a more detailed description.

2004-2006

Beamline Responsible of BW4/HASYLAB; Topics: µGISAXS, GIUSAXS & GISAXS on nanostructured polymeric, noble metal, colloidal and composite materials; TUSAXS & SAXS on colloidal systems; data analysis via modelling;

2001-2004

Postdoctoral fellow at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) at the Beamline ID13 (Dr. habil. C. Riekel). Topics: R&D projects: µSAXS and in particular µGISAXS; Monte-Carlo modelling applied to soft condensed matter; participation in future development of micro-focussing optics

2001

Degree (Promotion) Dr. rer. nat. at the Technische Universität München. Title of the PhD-thesis: ''Konzeption und neutronenoptische Optimierung des kalten Flugzeitspektrometers am FRM-II''. Grade: Summa cum Laude

1998-2001

PhD student at Physik-Department E13 (Prof. Dr. W. Petry), Technische Universität München. Topics: Design and neutron optical optimization of the time-of-flight spectrometer with cold neutrons at the new neutron source Forschungsreaktor München II (FRM-II); experiments on glass-forming liquids and superfluid 4Helium at time-of-flight spectrometers.

1997

Degree as Diplom-Physiker. Title of diploma thesis: ''Abschrecken aus dem unterkühlten Zustand''. Grade: Sehr gut

1996-1997

Diploma thesis at the Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik (Prof. Dr. K. Maier), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. Topic: Undercooled pure metallic melts; design, build-up and testing of a modified splatcooling apparatus combined with a levitation stage.

1994

Diplomvorprüfung Physik. Grade: Sehr gut

1992-1997

Study of physics at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn