Berufliche Erfahrung

2022-2025

Associate Editor for Science Advances

2022-2024

Chair of the Quantum Optics Division of the German Physical Society

since 2019

University professor for Theoretical Physics
at the Freie Universität Berlin

2010 - 2019

University professor for Theoretical Physics
at the Universität Kassel

2017

Offer for a position as Full professor for Theoretical Physics
at Gothenburg University — decline

2006 - 2010 

Independent junior group leader at the Freie Universität Berlin

2005 - 2006

Postdoctoral researcher with Ronnie Kosloff
at the Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel

2003 - 2005 

Postdoctoral researcher with Françoise Masnou-Seeuws
at Laboratoire Aimé Cotton Orsay, France

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Ausbildung

10.2002 

Doctorate in Theoretical Physics (PhD) from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,
summa cum laude, supervised by Hans-Joachim Freund

1998 - 2002 

PhD student in the Department of Chemical Physics
at the Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Berlin
and at the Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel

1995 - 1996 

Studies of physics at the Physics Department of the University of Texas at Austin

1992 - 1998 

Studies of physics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

1991 - 1992

Studium generale at the Leibniz Kolleg Tübingen

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Auszeichnungen

2018

Rosi and Max Varon Visiting Professorship, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

2018

APS outstanding referee

2006

Emmy Noether grant from the German Science Foundation (DFG)

2003

Otto Hahn medal (dissertation award) of the Max Planck Society

1998

Student award of the WE Heraeus Foundation

1995

Fulbright foreign scholarship

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Berufliche Aktivitäten

2019

Chair of the Gordon conference Quantum Control of Light and Matter, USA

2017 - 2021

Coordinator of the Marie Curie Innovative Training Network QuSCo
(Quantum-en-hanced Sensing via Quantum Control)

2017 - 2019

Elected member of the Senate Competition Committee of the Leibniz Association

2016-2021

Member of the International Advisory Board of J. Phys. B

2016 - 2019

Advisory board member for the Center for Quantum Information and Control
at the University of New Mexico

2012 - 2018

Elected board member of EGAS, a division of the European Physical Society

2009 - 2012

Elected member of the Vorstandsrat (extended board) of the German Physical Society