Education
| 2014– |
Postdoc with Jeff Hasty and Lev Tsimring |
| 2013 |
Ph.D. in physics summa cum laude Supervisor: Stefan Luther |
| 2009 |
Physics diploma with honors Supervisor: Ulrich Parlitz |
Awards and Prizes
| May 2014 – present | Postdoctoral “Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship” awarded by the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) |
| Dec 2014 | Second prize of the “Deutscher Studienpreis” for Ph.D. theses with strong societal impacts (one first and two second prizes awarded nationwide in the natural sciences and engineering) awarded by the Körber foundation. |
| Jun 2014 | Otto-Hahn medal of the Max Planck Society for outstanding scientific achievements |
| Dec 2013 | Dr.-Berliner-Dr.-Ungewitter Prize of the faculty of Physics for the best Ph.D. thesis of the semester |
| Jul 2013 | Participation in the 63rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting |
| May 2009 – Apr 2012 | Excellence Stipend (PhD) funded by the International Max Planck Research School for Physics of Biological and Complex Systems, Göttingen, Germany |
| Mar 2009 | Dr.-Berliner-Dr.-Ungewitter Prize of the faculty of Physics for outstanding graduation (Diplom) |
| Nov 2003 – Mar 2009 | Scholar of the “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes“ (German Academic foundation) |
Experience
| Jun 2016 – Jul 2016 | UCSD Micro-MBA at the Rady School of Management, La Jolla, CA, USA |
| Jul 2012 – Oct 2012 | Outreach: Presentation of the group’s theoretical and experimental work for the module “Complexity” of the traveling exhibition “Science Tunnel 3.0” by the Max Planck Society |
| May 2003 – Jun 2012 | Freelancer at Klinikum Bielefeld: Programming and maintenance of a contract management software for the Human Resources Department, streamlining administrative processes |
| Nov 2009 – Dec 2009 | Visiting Graduate Student at the Laboratory of Dr. R. F. Gilmour, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA working with Dr. F. H. Fenton on the numerical simulation of cardiac tissue |
| Jan 2008 – Dec 2008 | Research Assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, in the Independent Junior Research Group “Biomedical Physics” of Prof. Dr. Luther: Analysis of experimental data, numerical simulations |
| May 2007 – Aug 2007 | Research Assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, in the Network Dynamics Group, working with Dr. Marc Timme on synchronisation in neural networks |
| Feb 2006 – Mar 2006 | MeVis Research GmbH Bremen, “Neuro“ division, working with Dr. Jan Klein, Topic: Analysis of Diffusion Tensor Imaging data by clustering methods. |
| Summer 2003 | Forschungszentrum Jülich, working with Dr. Paul Konopka, Institute of Chemistry and Dynamics of the Geosphere; ICG-I: Stratosphere |
Teaching and Supervision
| 2009 – present | Supervision of two M.Sc., three B.Sc. students and a long-term student group project |
| Summers 2014/15/16 | Teaching and mentoring group projects at the Eighth, Ninth and Tenth q-bio Summer Schools, San Diego campus |
| Apr 2015, Mar 2016 | Module at Math Modeling Tutorial Workshop, San Diego Center for Systems Biology |
| Oct 2013 – Feb 2014 | Lecture Excitable Media (533040) in modules for biophysics and physics of complex systems, Göttingen University |
| Feb 2010 & Feb 2011 | Nonlinear Dynamics Course, Third Institute of Physics, Göttingen University |
| 2005 – 2007 | Teaching Assistent at the Institute of Computer Science (lecture "Informatics I") and the Institute of Theoretical Physics (lecture "Quantum Mechanics I"), Göttingen University |