Curriculum Vitae

Personal

Date of Birth:  03/24/1986
Nationality:  German
Family:  married, 3 kids

Professional Experience

01/2021 – Now Junior Professor for Geomaterials and Crystalline Materials, University of Freiburg
01/2019 – 12/2020 Instrument Scientist, DESY, Hamburg
09/2015 – 12/2018 Scientific Assistant, Institute for Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne
07/2013 – 08/2015 Postdoctoral Scholar, GSECARS, University of Chicago
02/2013 – 05/2013 Postdoc, Bayerisches Geoinstitut/Institute for Crystallography, University of Bayreuth
11/2009 – 12/2012 Research Associate, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth
04/2009 – 10/2009 Student Assistant, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth
03/2007 – 03/2009 Student Assistant, University of Jena

University Education

02/2013 Dr. rer. nat. (PhD equivalent), Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth
11/2009 Diploma in Mineralogy (with distinction), University of Jena

Awards

2019 The European High Pressure Research Group (EHPRG) Award 
2018 Max-Delbrück Prize for young researchers of the University of Cologne (96.000 € (+25% overhead) over 2 years unbound research funding)

Invited Talks

2024 European XFEL/DESY Photon Science Users’ Meeting, Hamburg, Germany
2022 Gordon Research Conference on “Research at High Pressure”, Holderness, USA

2022

2 talks at the International School of Crystallography – 56th Course – Crystallography under extreme conditions – The future is bright and very compressed, Erice, Italy
2021 10th Asian conference on High Pressure Research (ACHPR-10), Online Conference
2021 Frontiers in Glass II, Online Symposium, June 30, 2021.
2018 European High Pressure Research Group Meeting (Plenary), Aveiro, Portugal
2018 Annual Meeting of the American Crystallographic Association, Toronto
2017 High-Pressure Mineral Physics Seminar, Saint Malo, France
2016 European High Pressure Research Group Meeting, Bayreuth, Germany
2016 13th International Workshop on Water Dynamics, Sendai, Japan
2015 AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, USA
2015 Geophysical Laboratory, Washington USA
2014 Princeton University, USA
2013 AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco USA