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Education and Professional Experience

March 2014 Project Coordinator of Prof. Kremer's ERC Advanced Grant "MOLPROCOMP" in the Theory Department at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany, working on the development and application of computer simulation methods for a molecular understanding of non-equilibrium processes in soft-matter systems.
September 2009 - February 2014 Research Associate in the Theory Department of Prof. Kurt Kremer at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany, working in the “Organic Electronics” group of Dr. Denis Andrienko
March - June 2011 Visiting scientist at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) of UC Los Angeles, USA
March - August 2009 Postdoctoral Research Associate in the group of Prof. Alexei Maradudin at the Institute for Surface and Interface Science of UC Irvine, USA
2005 - 2009 PhD studies in Theoretical Surface and Interface Science in the group of Prof. Johannes Pollmann at the Institute for Solid State Theory of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster: “Self-interaction corrections to density-functional theory for solids, surfaces, and nanotubes” [pdf]
June - September 2005 Junior Research Specialist in the group of Prof. Alexei Maradudin at the Institute for Surface and Interface Science of the University of California, Irvine, USA
2004 - 2005 Diploma thesis supervised by Prof. Johannes Pollmann in Theoretical Solid State Science: “Selbstwechselwirkungs- und relaxationskorrigierte Pseudopotentiale für die Volumenkristalle von SiC, MgO, LiF, Silizium und Diamant”
1999 - 2005 Physics studies, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
1998 Abitur, Gymnasium Paulinum Münster, Germany

Honors and Awards

2011 Core Participant Fellowship of the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at University of California, Los Angeles (USA) for the Long Program “Navigating Chemical Compound Space for Materials and Bio Design”
2009 Postdoctoral Fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service

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