Since 10/2023: Director of the Department for Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

Since 06/2013: Full Professor (W3) for "Theoretical Electrical Engineering", Paderborn University, Germany

10/2021 - 09/2023: Deputy Director of the Department for Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

04/2007 - 05/2013: Head of the DFG Emmy Noether junior research group on "Computational Nanophotonics", Paderborn University, Germany

01/2012 - 03/2012: Visiting Scientist, group of H. Carmichael, University of Auckland

10/2006 - 03/2007: Post-doctoral research assistant, Technical University Berlin, Germany

10/2004 - 09/2006: Post-doctoral research associate, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

09/2004: PhD thesis "Light Propagation and Many-Particle Effects in Semiconductor Nanostructures", Technical University Berlin, Germany

10/2000 - 09/2004: Research assistant (PhD), Technical University Berlin, Germany

04/2000 - 09/2000: Research assistant (PhD), University Marburg, Germany

01/2000: Diplom (MSc) in Physics, University of Marburg, Germany

1997 - 1998: study abroad at the University of Kent at Canterbury/UK, recipient of the 1998 Europhysics Prize

1994 - 1996: First diploma (BSc) in Physics and Computer Science, Philips University Marburg

2011: Goldene Kreide for excellence in teaching

10/2009: Research Award 2009 of the Paderborn University for a project on "Custom Computing Architectures for Nanophotonics" with Prof. Christian Plessl

11/2005: Carl-Ramsauer-Preis 2005 for PhD thesis