Career

 

Since October 2018

  • Professor of Functional Materials, Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg (Salzburg, Austria)

2016 – 2018

  • Professor of Physical Chemistry, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft des Saarlandes (Saarbrücken, Germany)

2012 – 2016

  • Research Group Leader at the “Eidgenössischen Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt” (Empa), Department of Materials for Energy Conversion (Dübendorf, Switzerland)
  • Lecturer at the Materials Department, ETH Zürich (Switzerland)

2007 – 2012

  • Product Manager for Transmission Electron Microscopy at Zeiss (Oberkochen, Germany)

2002 – 2007

  • Technical Leader Electron Microscopy Group (Department of physical characterization) at NXP semiconductors (Crolles, France)

1999 – 2002

  •  Postdoc in Solid State Physics, Laboratoire Louis Néel (Grenoble, France)
 
 

Academic Qualifications

 
1996 – 1999

  • P.h.D Thesis in Physical Chemistry with summa cum laude:”Magnetic Properties of DyN BiM Clusters in Molecular Beams”, University of Marburg and Bonn (Germany)

1995 – 1996

  • Master Thesis in Theoretical Chemistry: “Calculating surface effects of CdSe Nanoclusters”, University of California (Berkley, USA)

1993 – 1995

  • Master of Science, Chemistry, University of Marburg (Germany)

1991 – 1993

  •  Bachelor of Science, Chemistry, University of Tübingen  (Germany)