Since 2019

Professor (W3, tenured), Technische Universität München, Germany

2015-2022

Centrally funded Max Planck Research Group Leader (W2), Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany

2010-2015

Postdoctoral fellow Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

2006-2010

PhD in Theoretical Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Germany

2009

Grad Fellow at the University of California Santa Barbara, U.S.A.

2000-2006

Diploma of physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany;
Studies of physics at the University of Karlsruhe (Pre-Diploma)

2003-2004

Master of Science in Theoretical Physics at the University of Manchester, U.K

2023

Esther Hoffman Beller Lectureship

2021

Fellow of the Max Planck School Matter to Life

2020

ERC Starting Grant Awardee

2013

Member of the Elisabeth Schiemann-Kolleg of the Max Planck Society

2011-2015

Postdoctoral fellowship from the Stiftung der Naturforscher Leopoldina

2007-2010

Graduate scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

2004

John Birks Award University of Manchester

2000-2006

Scholarship from the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung