Since May 2007 guest scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden
October 2003 to April 2007 postdoctoral research officer at the Centre for the Analysis of Time Series, London School of Economics.
April to September 2003 research fellow at the Department for Electrotechnics, University of Mining and Metallurgy in Krakow, Poland.
January 2003 PhD from University of Göttingen with ``summa cum laude'' (highest possible degree). PhD-thesis ``Approximations and Applications of Nonlinear Filters'', Supervisor: Ulrich Parlitz.
May 1997 to January 2003 at III. Physikalisches Institut Göttingen in various positions
From summer 1992 student of physics at Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel and Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
1984 to 1994 member of the non-professional theater group ``statt-theater neumünster''
School in Neumünster, Schleswig-Holstein, Abitur summer 1992
Born 30th May 1973 in Kiel, Germany
Awards
Berliner-Ungewitter-Preis of the Faculty of Physics, University of Göttingen for the best PhD-thesis in the winter semester 2002-2003
Language Skills
German (native language), English, basic knowledge of French, beginner's level of Spanish and Polish.
Personal Interests
Competitive dinghy sailing, calligraphy, European history, photography, and the piano.