Academic career
| since 10/2025 | Vice-Dean Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Universität Regensburg |
| 10/2023 - 09/2025 | Dean Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Universität Regensburg |
| 10/2021 - 09/2023 | Vice-Dean Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Universität Regensburg |
| since 04/2019 | Full Professor of Physical Chemistry (W3) Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Universität Regensburg |
| 01/2014 - 03/2019 | Professor of Physical Chemistry (W2) Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry (external link, opens in a new window), Ruhr-University Bochum |
| 12/2013 | Habilitation in Physical Chemistry Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy (external link, opens in a new window), University of Würzburg |
| 02/2012 | Teaching Certificate Hochschullehre Bayern (external link, opens in a new window) within the training program ProfiLehre for lecturers at universities in Bavaria |
| 01/2012 - 03/2021 | Leader of an Emmy-Noether junior research group funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) |
| 06/2010 - 12/2013 | Habilitation project at the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (external link, opens in a new window), University of Würzburg (Mentor: Prof. Tobias Brixner (external link, opens in a new window)) |
| 10/2008 - 05/2010 | Postdoctoral research fellow in the Laboratoire d'Optique et Biosciences (external link, opens in a new window) at École Polytechnique (external link, opens in a new window) in Palaiseau (France), with Prof. Manuel Joffre (external link, opens in a new window), Dr. Marten Vos (external link, opens in a new window), and Prof. Jean-Louis Martin (external link, opens in a new window) |
| 10/2007 - 09/2008 | Postdoctoral work, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Würzburg |
| 10/2004 - 09/2007 | Dissertation at the Department of Physics and Astronomy (external link, opens in a new window), University of Würzburg, with Prof. Gustav Gerber (external link, opens in a new window) |
| 09/2004 | Diploma in Physics at the Department of Physics and Astronomy (external link, opens in a new window), University of Würzburg, with Prof. Gustav Gerber (external link, opens in a new window) |
| 05/2003 | Master of Arts, Department of Physics and Astronomy (external link, opens in a new window), State University of New York at Stony Brook (USA), with Prof. Thomas Weinacht (external link, opens in a new window) |
| 08/2002 - 06/2003 | Studies in Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy (external link, opens in a new window), State University of New York at Stony Brook (USA) |
| 10/1999 - 09/2004 | Studies in Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy (external link, opens in a new window), University of Würzburg (with two semesters abroad in Stony Brook, USA) |
Scholarships
as the leader of a junior research group:
German Research Foundation (DFG) (external link, opens in a new window)
Emmy-Noether-Programme (external link, opens in a new window)
Scholarship from the Free State of Bavaria (BayBFG)
Awards
| 09/2024 | Teaching Innovation Award, category "Examination" (1of 5 recipients), University of Regensburg |
| 07/2022 | Award for Good Teaching in Chemistry during the year 2020, Dept. of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Regensburg |
| 08/2012 | appointed as Emil-Fischer-Fellow (external link, opens in a new window), Dept. of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Würzburg |
| 07/2012 | selected as Young Researcher, 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (external link, opens in a new window) |
| 05/2008 | Award of the Commemoration Year Foundation for Science of Lower Franconia |
| 12/2007 | Wilhelm-Conrad-Röntgen Research Award, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Würzburg |
| 12/2004 | Wilhelm-Conrad-Röntgen Student Award, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Würzburg |