Personal details
residence: | Kleinmachnow, Germany | |
born: | 7. January 1958 in Esslingen, Germany | |
nationality: | German |
Key experience and skills
Memberships
Career
Nov. 2019 - March 2020 | Visiting scientist at the Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, The University of Sydney, Australia |
Nov./Dec 2012 | Prof. Brahm Prakash Visiting Professor at the Department of Materials Engineering of Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, India |
from 2009 | Head of the Institute of Applied Materials of the Helmholtz-Centre Berlin (new organisation after merger of HMI and BESSY) |
Oct. 2008 – March 2009 | Visiting scientist at CSIRO - Materials Science and Engineering, Clayton/Melbourne, Australia |
Oct. 2005 – Sept. 2008 | Head of the Division "Structural Research" (SF) at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute |
from 2002 | Professor at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, and Head of the Department of Engineering Materials (SF3) at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute |
1995 – 2001 | Senior researcher at the Fraunhofer-Institute in Bremen, Germany |
1998 | 2nd PhD ("Venia Legendi" or "Habilitation")
in Solid State Physics Reader (Privatdozent) at the University of Bremen (Faculty of Physics) |
1996 – 1998 | Lecturer at the University of Bremen (Faculty of Physics) for Solid State Physics |
1993 – 1995 | Lecturer in Materials Science at the Bremen University of Applied Sciences (FH), Faculty of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering |
1991 – 1995 | Postdoctoral position at the Fraunhofer-Institute for Applied Materials Research in Bremen, Germany |
1989 | PhD in Physical Chemistry at the University of Munich, Germany |
1986 | Research visit to the University of Vienna and Technical University of Vienna, Austria |
1984 | Diploma (equiv. to MSc) in Physics at the University of Munich, Germany |
Update: 2019