Personal details

residence:		Kleinmachnow, Germany
born:		7. January 1958 in Esslingen, Germany
nationality:		German

Key experience and skills

• research experience in materials science and computational physics
• long standing experience in industrial contract research and acquisition of grants
• supervisor of 64 graduate students (Bachelor/Master) and 42 PhD students
• principal organizer of 5 conferences and editor of proceedings, co-chair of additional 4 conferences
• publication record includes 330 peer-reviewed papers, 11 patents and 150 articles in conference proceedings
• reviewer for 55 journals

Memberships

• Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG)
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde (DGM)

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