Resume
Materials Scientist & Physicist | Educated in Aachen & California | Trained in Zurich
EDUCATION
BSc | MSc
Materials Science
PhD
Experimental Physics
Infrared Nanooptics group at the I. Institute of Physics at RWTH.
Lecturer & Postdoc
Department of Mechanical & Process Engineering
Research Assistant RWTH Aachen
II. Institute of Physics A
2015 - 2016 Group Nanostructure Optics
2011 - 2015 Group Infrared Nano-Optics and Metamaterials
Visiting Scientist Stanford University
2014 Group of Prof. Aaron M. Lindenberg
Departmental Advisor RWTH Aachen
2011 - 2014 Master's program in Materials Science
Student Assistant RWTH Aachen
2009 - 2010 Institute of Electronic Materials
Teaching Assistant RWTH Aachen
2009 - 2010 Institute of Physical Metallurgy & Metal Physics
2008 - 2009 II. Institute of Physics B
2006 - 2008 Institute of Crystallography
Summer School Optical Materials Engineering Laboratory 2018.
WORK EXPERIENCE
GRANTS | HONORS | AWARDS
Best Talk
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2019 European Phase Change and Ovonics
Symposium (E\PCOS) Grenoble (FR)
2015 Materials for Photonics Symposium,
Essen (GER)
RWTH Doctoral Scholarship
12.000 EUR
Deutschlandstipendium
7.200 EUR
Research Ambassador Scholarship
4.500 EUR
ETH Career Seed Grant
30.000 CHF
ETH Postdoctoral Fellowship
228.300 CHF
Poster Award
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2018 European Phase Change and Ovonics
Symposium (E\PCOS), Catania (ITA)
2014 Materials Research Society (MRS)
Spring Meeting, San Francisco (USA)
Honors
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2018 Selected Participant at ETH Domain's
Mentoring Program
2016 Selected Attendant at the Lindau Nobel
Laureate Meeting dedicated to Physics
Peer Review for Scientific Journals
Advanced Materials, Advanced Optical Materials, Nature Communications, ACS Photonics,
Optics Express, Photonics Research, Sensors, Physica Status Solidi RRL, Optical Materials,
Light: Science & Applications, Nano Letters, Optica, Optics Letters
Editorial Board Member
Review Editor on the Editorial Board of Plasmonics (Frontiers in Photonics)
Session Chair
MRS Spring Meeting (Phoenix), Symposium "Phase-change materials for electronic and photonic nonvolatile memory and neuro-inspired computing" (2020) - Postponed due to Covid-19.
European Quantum Electronics Conference (Munich), Symposium "Light-matter interactions at the Nano-scale" (2021)
Conference Organization Committee
Photonics Online Meetup POM
(Poster Committee - June 2020, Tutorial Chair - January 2021)
Poster Jury
Graduate Symposium of the Competence Center for Materials and Processes at ETH Zürich (2018, 2019)
