CV
Professional experience
2023-present Senior Process Integration Engineer (SiC metallization), Nexperia Germany, Hamburg
2022-2023 Research Scientist in the group of Prof. Dr. Jens Müller, Institute of Physics, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
2019-2022 Postdoctoral Researcher with Prof. Dr. Axel Hoffmann, Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
2018-2019 Postdoctoral Researcher with Prof. Dr. Jens Müller, Institute of Physics, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
Education
2013-2018 PhD in Physics, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
Thesis: "Investigation of Novel Condensed Matter Systems by Means of Fluctuation Spectroscopy"
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Jens Müller
2013-2018 Master of Science in Physics, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
Thesis: "Hall-Magnetometry Studies on Ferromagnetic Micro-Particles" (in German)
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Jens Müller
2008-2011 Bachelor of Science in Physics, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
Thesis: "Measurements of the Carrier-Envelope Phase of Ultrashort Laser Pulses by Means of a Stereo-ATI Spectrometer" (in German)
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Dörner
Academic honors
2023 Travel grant for attending the APS March Meeting 2023 in Las Vegas (NV, USA) and giving a presentation on "Integrating computational methods into the physics curriculum" by the Friends of the Goethe-University Frankfurt; approx. 1000 €
2022-2023 Research grant within the Focus Track A|B program of the Goethe-University Frankfurt awarded for early career researchers (by GRADE); 5000 € for conference attendance and a high-performance simulation computer
2019-2022 Research Fellowship of the German Science Foundation (DFG) for a two-and-a-half-year postdoctoral work on the Motion and Dynamics of Skyrmions in Magnetic Multilayers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA); approx. 106,000 €
2018 Travel grant by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for a presentation at the International Conference of Magnetism in San Francisco (USA); approx. 2,000 €
Teaching
2023 Guest lecturer at the Goethe-University Frankfurt, taught one introductory experimental physics class (electrodynamics). Coordinated the advanced lab course at the Institute of Physics.
2022 Guest lecturer at the Goethe-University Frankfurt, taught three introductory experimental physics (classical mechanics and thermodynamics) lectures for ~150-180 freshmen as well as one lecture on "magnetic recording and spintronics". Co-organized a seminar on magnetism and magnetic materials. Co-advising an M.Sc. student with their research project.
2019-2022 Guest lecturer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, delivered three lectures on "magnetic materials and applications" (topics: magnetism in biology, magnetic recording, spin transport and spin torques) as well as one lecture on "electronic properties of materials" (topic: wave-particle duality). Mentored students during their senior design project on "micromagnetic simulations of skyrmion dynamics". Designed and supervised micromagnetic simulation group projects for the "magnetic materials and applications" classes in fall 2020 and fall 2021 semesters. Co-advised four students in the Hoffmann group with their research projects.
2013-2018 Guest lecturer for advanced condensed matter physics elective classes, delivered three classes (topics: electronic transport and magnetometry techniques). Teaching assistant for ten different introductory and advanced condensed matter classes during this period of time, including: design of problem sheets and their solutions, organizing and leading discussion sessions, grading exams, office hours for students. Advisor for an experiment on electronic noise in the advanced lab course of the department. Co-guidance of 3 M.Sc. and 3 B.Sc. thesis research projects.
2009-2013 Teaching assistant for an introductory class on condensed matter physics as well as for two classes on mathematics for physics majors and two introductory classes on computer science and programming with Python.
Further activities
2022-2023 Safety representative of the Institute of Physics, Goethe-University Frankfurt
2022-2023 Representative for all scientific staff members at the Institute of Physics, Goethe-University Frankfurt
2022-present Member of the IEEE Magnetics Society publicity team. Posting information on social media such as Twitter and Linkedin.
2022-present Blogging on Teaching Physics in Higher Education
2017-2023 Created website of the Hoffmann research group and updated information about people, projects and publications regularly (2019-2022). Also in charge of the Müller research group's website (2017-2018 and 2022-2023).