| born 1971 in Munich, married to the artist Janina Hornberger (kunst-for-life), father of two boys |
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| Current position | |
| since 3/2011 |
Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany |
| Previous activities | |
| 11/2009-2/2011 |
Research group leader, Max-Planck Insitute for the Physics of Complex Systems |
| 7/2004-10/2009 |
Head of a Emmy Noether research group, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich |
| 3/2006-6/2006 |
Guest professor,
University of Vienna |
| 2/2002-6/2004 |
Postdoc with Markus Arndt and Anton Zeilinger, University of Vienna |
| 6/2001-1/2002 |
Postdoc, MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden |
| 4/2000-5/2001 |
PhD student with Andreas Buchleitner,
Max-Planck Insitute for the Physics of Complex Systems |
| 2/1998-3/2000 |
PhD student with Uzy Smilansky, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel |
| 9/1997-12/1997 | Research associate, MPI for Quantum Optics |
| 9/1996-8/1997 |
Diploma student with Andreas Buchleitner,
Max-Planck Insitute for Quantum Optics, Garching |
| 11/1992-8/1996 | Study of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich |
| Awards and fellowships | |
| 4/2002-10/2009 | Emmy Noether group/ Emmy Noether fellowship (DFG) |
| 6/2002 | Otto-Hahn Medaille (Max Planck Society) |
| 2/1998-3/2000 | Minerva fellowship |
| 2/1995-8/1997 | Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes |