1996 Diploma, experimental physics, Freie Universität Berlin
2000 PhD, experimental physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Prof. K. Baberschke
2000 Postdoc, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
2001 Scientific Assistant, Freie Universität Berlin, Prof. M. Wolf
2005 Habilitation, experimental physics, Freie Universität Berlin
2006 Private Lecturer, Freie Universität Berlin
since 2009 Full Professor, University Duisburg-Essen
2016-2028 Spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Center 1242
2020-2028 Review board of the German Research Foundation (DFG) 

 

Visiting Scientist

1999 University of California at Berkeley, USA, Prof. Z.   Q. Qiu

2005, 2006 University of Pittsburgh, USA, H. Petek

2007 Stanford University, USA, SSRL, A. Nilsson

2008 Stanford University, USA, Z. X. Shen

2022 University of Tokyo, ISSP, Japan, K. Okazaki

 

Awards and fellowships

2006- 2009 Heisenberg Fellow of the DFG

2007 Karl-Scheel award, Physical Society of Berlin

 

Research interest

Femtosecond magnetization dynamics

Non-equilibrium dynamics of correlated electron materials

Ultrafast electron dynamics in low dimensional systems