Biography

• Since 2018 Head of research department "X-ray spectroscopy at interfaces of thin films", HI ERN
• Since 2018 Professor (W2) of "X-ray Spectroscopy", FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
• Since 2018 Head of Department “Interface Design”, HZB
• 2011 – 2017 Professor (W1) of Photovoltaics, Institut für Physik und Chemie, Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg, Cottbus, Germany
• 2009 – 2017 Head of the Helmholtz-University Young Investigator Group: “Improving Thin-Film Solar Cells by Deliberate Interface Tailoring”, HZB
• 2007 – 2009 Assistant Research Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), U.S.A.
• 2006 – 2007 Assistant Research Professor (adjunct), UNLV
• 2005 – 2007 Postdoctoral Scholar (Emmy-Noether Fellow), UNLV
• 2004 – 2005 Research Assistant, Department of Solar Energy Research, Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin, Germany
• 2004 Dr.-Ing. (Electrical Engineering), Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
• 2000 – 2003 Ph.D. student (Electrical Engineering), Department of Solar Energy Research, Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin, Germany
• 1999 Dipl.-Ing. (Environmental Engineering/Renewable Energies), University of Applied Sciences (FHTW), Berlin, Germany
• 1996 Vordiplom (Physics), Potsdam University, Germany

Awards

• Winning grant to establish Helmholtz-University Young Investigator Group (2007)
• Emmy-Noether Fellow of the German Research Foundation (2005)
• Hahn-Meitner-Technologie-Transfer-Preis for outstanding services in the area of technology transfer (2002)