Education
| 1999-2002 | Bonn University PhD in Physics (summa cum laude) Bound states in strongly correlated magnetic and electronic systems Thesis Advisor: Hartmut Monien |
| 2000-2001 |
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill Internship with the Physics Theory Group Advisor: Anirvan Sengupta |
| 1998-1999 | Bonn University Diploma in Physics Thermodynamics of the Spin-Peierls-Transition with Dynamic Phonons Thesis Advisor: Hartmut Monien |
| 1994-1998 | University Studies of Physics and Computer Science |
Employment
2006-now 2005-2006 |
Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corporation, Santa Barbara Research Scientist Visiting Research Scientist |
| 2002-2005 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich) Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics and Postdoctoral Fellow of the Computational Laboratory, Department of Computer Science |
| 1999-2002 | Bonn University Research and Teaching Assistant |
| 2000-2001 | Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill Research Intern |
| 1995/1996 | IBM Scientific Center, Heidelberg Research Intern |
Awards
| 2000-2001 | Scholarship of the German National Merit Foundation and Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies |
| 1994-1999 | Scholarship of the German National Merit Foundation |
| 1997 | Scholarship of the Centre Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire (CERN), CERN summer school, July-August 1997 |
| 1994 | Winner of the 12th nationwide Informatics Olympiad, Germany |