Former Physical Chemistry
Building 1231 (near HS20)
Jakob-Welder-Weg 11
D - 55128 Mainz
Email
Curriculum Vitae
Birthday
13.05.1967
Birthplace
Bad Ems
Vocational Training and Professional Life as
a Chemical Laboratory Assistant
30.06.1983
Secondary school level I certificate Staatliche Realschule Nassau / Lahn
01.09.1983 -31.08.1986
Vocational Training "Chemical Laboratory
Assistant" Boehringer Ingelheim KG, Ingelheim, Germany
"Award of excellence" from the chamber of industry and
commerce Rheinhessen.
01.09.1986 - 30.09.1990
Technical
Staff, Chemical Laboratory Assistant
Boehringer Ingelheim KG, Ingelheim, Germany
Chemicals Department, Chemical Physics
University study and PhD
27.05.1990
Abitur Evening School Wiesbaden
01.10.1990 - 09.12.1995
Physics study
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
18.12.1995
Physics Diploma - summa cum laude
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Diploma thesis in experimental physics: "Analysis and Reduction of
Collision -Induced Background in Resonance Ionization for Trace
Analysis of Radiotoxic Strontium Isotopes"
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. E.-W. Otten
01.01.1996 - 31.07.1999
Research Assistant
Department of Physics at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
28.06.1999
Doctor rerum naturalium in Physics
- magna cum laude -
Dissertation in experimental physics: 'Theoretical Description and
Realization of Multi-Step Resonance ionization of Calcium for
Highly-Selective Trace Analysis'
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. E.-W. Otten
PostDoc
01.08.1999 - 30.04.2000
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland WA, USA
15.05.2000 - 31.08.2005
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
2nd Spokesperson and GSI contact person of the
LaSpec - Collaboration
(Implementation of laser spectroskopic Experiments at the Low-Energy
Beamline of the Super-Fragment Separator at FAIR)
since 28.06.2005
GSI contact person of the "Laserspectroscopic
Test of Relativistic Time Dilation" at the GSI Experimental
Storage Ring
since 01.09.2005
Leader of a 'Helmholtz Research Group for
Young Investigators'
on 'Laser Spectroscopy of Exotic Atoms and Highly Charged Ions'
Department of Nuclear Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität
Mainz
since Feb. 2009
Spokesperson of the LaSpec - Collaboration
(Implementation of laser spectroskopic Experiments at the Low-Energy
Beamline of the Super-Fragment Separator at FAIR)
Appointment
30.04.2009
Appointment as Junior-Professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University (Institute for Nuclear Chemistry)
Miscellaneous
1990 - 1995
Scholarship of the "German National
Academic Foundation"
July 1991
Participation at a German National Academic
Foundation Summer School on "Neural Networks", La Villa,
Italy
August 1993
Participation at a German National Academic
Foundation Summer School on "Technological Impact Assesment",
Völs am Schlern, Italy
June - Aug. 1997
DAAD Scholarship for Scientific Eduction and Advanced Training Abroad
Visiting the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA,
USA
June 1998
Graduate Student Award for the Best Presentation
at the 9th International Symposium on Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy and its
Applications, presented by the Institute of RIS
Aug. - Sept. 2001
Visiting Research Scientist
at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
June - Oct. 2004
Visiting Research Scientist
at TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada
September 2005
Installation of a 'Helmholtz Research Group for
Young Investigators'
at the department of nuclear chemistry of the Johannes
Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Publications and Invited talks
> 60 Publications in peer-reviewed Journals
> 45 Invited talks at conferences, seminars and colloquia since 2002
Third-party funding
German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF),
German Research Foundation (DFG), Research Fund of the Mainz University,
Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers (HGF), Foundation Rhineland
Palatinate for Innovation, European Union (EU)
Conference Organisation
Workshop on "Advanced Laser and Mass Spectroscopy", ALMAS-1, GSI/FAIR Darmstadt 2006
MATS-LASPEC TDR-Workshop, Matalascañas (Huelva), Spanien 2008
Committees
Member of the Coordination Committee of the "Research Center of Fundamental Forces and Mathematical Foundations" at the Johannes Gutenberg-University
Member of the Steering Committee of the Joint Research Activity "Lasers" in the I3 Integrated Infrastructure Initiative "EURONS"
Referee of international Journals
Phys. Rev. Lett., Europ. Phys. J. D, Hyperf. Int., Phys. Rev. A, J. Phys. B
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