professional preparation and career

01/2006 - Present
Assistant Professor at the University of Utah,  Department of Physics

11/2002 -12/2005
Postdoctoral researcher at Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin  (now Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin)

08/2000 -10/2002
Graduate Student at the Philipps Universität Marburg
Degree: PhD in Physics
Thesis "The Dynamics of spin-dependent charge carrier recombination"
The dissertation was produced at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin (now Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin)

08/1997 - 07/2000
Graduate Student at North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC, USA
Degree: Master of Science in Physics
Thesis: "Hydrogen Loss Mechanisms of ammonia rich remote plasma
enhanced chemical vapor deposited silicon nitride"

10/1994 - 01/2000
Undergraduate Student at Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, Germany
Degree: Diplom Physik
Minor Subjects: Mathematics, Electronics
Thesis: "Diffusion von Wasserstoff und Deuterium in Schichtsystemen
aus SixNyHz und c-Si"

1994   Scholarship of the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
1997   Fulbright Scholarship
1999   Elected to Phi-Kappa-Phi Society
2003   Dissertationspreis Adlershof, Joint award of the Humbold Universität, Berlin,
the Initiativgemeinschaft Außeruniversitärer Forschungseinrichtungen in Adlershof
and the Wirtschaftsstandort Adlershof GMBH.
2004  Wissenschaftspreis der Nordhessischen Wirtschaft 2004
2004  HMI Kommunikationspreis 2004

memberships

Fulbright-Alumni Germany
Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
Phi-Kappa-Phi Society
International EPR Society
Material Research Society

other activities

Professional training for Industrial Electronics, BASF AG, 1987-1990,
Civil service in Germany: 1993-1994

high school   Technisches Gymnasium Offenburg, Abitur 1993