Professional Education
- University of Cologne, Germany - Diploma in Physics (1989)
- University of Cologne, Germany - Doctorate in Physics (1993)
- University of Cologne, Germany - Habilitation in Physics (1999)
Career
| Since 09/2003 | Full Professor (C4) for Experimental Physics, TU Dresden |
| and Director of the Institute of Solid State Research, IFW Dresden |
| 12/2000-09/2003 | Associate Professor (C3) for Experimental Physics, RWTH Aachen, Germany |
| 03/2000-12/2000 | Guest Professor for Physics, University of Braunschweig, Germany |
| 1999-03/2000 | Lecturer for Experimental Physics, University of Cologne, Germany |
| 1992 -1999 | Research Assistant, University of Cologne, Germany |
| 1993, 1997, 1999 | Visiting Scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA |
2002 Offer for a full professorship (C4) at the Universität Würzburg, Germany (declined)
2009 Offer for a full professorship (W3) at the Universität Mainz, Germany (declined)
2010 Offer for a full professorship (W3) at the Universität zu Köln, Germany (declined)
Other Academic Positions
- Coordinator of the DFG priority program SPP 1458 entitled “High temperaturesuperconductivity in Fe-Pnictides” (since 2009)
- Steering Committee of Collaborative Research Center 1143 “Correlated Magnetism: From Frustration To Topology” since 2014
- Member of the Scientific Board of the Graduiertenkolleg 1621 “Itineranter Magnetismus undSupraleitung in intermetallischen Verbindungen” at TU Dresden
- Founding director of the Center of Transport and Devices of Emergent Materials (CTD) at TUDresden
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the MPI-FKF Stuttgart (2006 - 2015)
- Member of the DFG Review Board 307 “Condensed Matter Physics” (2006 - 2016)
- Deputy spokesperson 2011 - 2014
- Spokesperson 2014 - 2016
- Jury – member of the German – Polish Kopernikus-Award (since 2013)
- Jury – member of Walter-Schottky- Award of the DPG (2010 - 2015)
- Member of the editorial board of the European Physical Journal B 2008 - 2013
- Referee for various leading organizations (f. e. DFG, BMBF, EC, NSF, SNF, GIF)
- Referee for more than 20 journals (f. e. Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Communication,Physical Rev. Lett., Phys. Rev. B)
Scientific Focus
- Materials with strongly correlated electrons
- Superconductivity and magnetism in unconventional superconductors such as iron basedsuperconductors, cuprates, etc.
- Materials Research on Novel Materials, such as Transition Metal Oxides, Lanthanides, Molecular Nanostructures and Molecular Magnets
- Electronic Properties of Solids and Molecular Nanostructures
- Magnetic Interactions and Order Phenomena
