Dr rer nat (Essen, Germany, 1997)
MInstP/FInstP (2006/2017), Member of DPG (1994), Member of EPS (1994)
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2017)
Presently (since 2005): Department of Physics, Lancaster University, UK
- Professor in Condensed Matter Theory (since 2009; before: Reader)
- Head of Theory group (since 2015)
- CNRS Visiting Researcher Fellowship, Mesoscopic Physics Group, University Nice, France (2017)
- External member of the DFG Forschergruppe 760 Scattering Systems with Complex Dynamics (2007-2013)
- Member of the APCTP topical program on Quantum Dynamics and Chaos (2008-2011)
- Head of Marie-Curie Excellence Team Nanoelectrophotonics (2005-2009)
- Member of the IoP Theory of Condensed Matter group committee (2006-2009) -->
November 2000 - March 2005: MPIPKS Dresden, Germany
- Head of Junior Research Group "Waves in Complex Media and Mesoscopic Phenomena"
- Member of the visitor's programme selection committee
- Member of the group head board
- Internal advisor for scientific conferences
- Confidant for scientific integrity (2002-2004)
- Delegate at NanOp center of the German Ministry of Science (2002-2004)
April 1998 - October 2000: Leiden University, The Netherlands
- Postdoc with Prof CWJ Beenakker
October 1994 - April 1998: University of Essen, Germany
- Research Associate with Prof F Haake
- Dr rer nat (PhD in Physics), 3 December 1997
October 1993 - September 1994: RIKEN, Wako-shi, Japan.
- Research fellow at the Optical Engineering Laboratory, now part of the RIKEN Center of Advanced Photonics
October 1988 - July 1993: University of Stuttgart, Germany
- Diplomphysiker (Diploma/MSc in Physics)
- Diploma thesis in the group of Prof U Weiss (1992/1993)
- Scholarship holder of the Studenstiftung des deutschen Volkes (1990-1993)