Education

• 1993: Diploma (M.S.) in physics, Universität Hamburg (with Prof. Dr. Joachim Appel)
• 1996: Doctorate, Universität Hamburg (with Prof. Dr. Joachim Appel)
• 2002: Habilitation, Freie Universität Berlin

Professional Employment

• 1993-1996: Graduate research assistant (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Universität Hamburg
• 1996-1998: Visiting research associate (Postdoc), Indiana University, Bloomington
• 1998-2000: Research associate (Postdoc), Freie Universität Berlin
• 2000-2005: Wissenschaftlicher Assistent, Freie Universität Berlin
• 2003-2005: Privatdozent (lecturer), Freie Universität Berlin
• 2006-2008: Assistant Professor, University of Kansas
• since 2008: Universitätsprofessor, Technische Universität Dresden

Honors and Awards

• 1993: Emmy and Alfred B. Steffens Memorial Stipend
• 1994: Graduate Scholarship of the Universität Hamburg
• 1996: Award "Best Dissertation of the Year 1996" by the Hamburger Universitätsgesellschaft
• 2005: Excellence in Teaching Award of the Physics Department, Freie Universität Berlin
• 2005: Honorary Lecturership "Professor Bernhard Heß", Physics Department, Universität Regensburg

Memberships

• Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
• American Physical Society
• Sigma Pi Sigma Physics Honors Society

Further Professional Activities

• Lectures taught: see here
• Many publications in international journals, see list of publications
• Many presentations at universities and conferences
• Subproject head in externally funded Collaborative Research Centers 290 (Metallic Thin Films: Structure, Magnetism, and Electronic Properties) and 658 (Elementary Processes in Molecular Switches at Surfaces) in Berlin
• Coorganizer of "Workshop on New Superconductors", Berlin 2005
• Co-Invesigator in an NSF-funded initiative for Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education at the University of Kansas (2006-2008)