Academic Career

Since 2004    Professor for Theoretical Physics at the University of Konstanz

2002 - 2003   Visiting Scholar and associate Professor (Lehrstuhlvertretung) at the University of Konstanz

2001 - 2002   Invited Professor and visiting Scholar at the Institut Charles Sadron, Strasbourg

2000 - 2001   Visiting Scholar at the University of Edinburgh

1996 - 2000   Senior Scientist at the Physik-Department, Technische Universität München

1994 - 1996   Post-doctoral Fellow at the Department of Materials Science, University of Illinois

1993 - 1994   Post-doctoral Fellow at the Physik-Department, Technische Universität München

Education

Habilitation in Physics, 1999
Technische Universität München, München, Germany 
thesis: Dynamics of macromolecular Fluids

Diploma in Physics, 1990
Technische Universität München, München, Germany
thesis : Brillouin scattering at the glass transition

Master of Science, 1988
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA

Abitur, 1983
Wilhelms-Gymnasium, München, Germany

Awards and Prizes

The Society of Rheology 2010 Journal of Rheology Publication Award, 2010

Award for excellence in teaching 'Löphi 2009' from the Physics students of the University Konstanz

Heisenberg fellowship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 1999-2003 

Habilitation fellowship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 1998-1999 

Post-doctoral fellowship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 1994-1996

Ph.D. thesis award from the organization Friends of the TU-München, 1993 

Fellowship according to the Bayerischen Begabtenförderungsgesetz, 1985-1990