since 2025: W3 Professor for Experimental Physics, Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics
2023 – 2024: ERC Junior Group leader ‘Quantum Fluids of Light’, University of Bonn
2023 – 2025: Member Cluster of Excellence “Matter and Light for Quantum Computing” (ML4Q)
2022 – 2024: Member of ‘Transdisciplinary Research Area: Matter’ in University of Excellence Bonn
2020 – : Project leader SFB-TRR 185 “Open System Control of Atomic and Photonic Matter”
2020 – 2024: Member of SFB-TRR 185 Steering Committee, SFB/TR 185
2017 – 2020: Research Associate, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
2016: University Assistant, University of Bonn
12/2015: PhD in Physics, University of Bonn
02/2011: Diploma in Physics
Awards
Wissenschaftspreis 2024, Industrie-Club Düsseldorf and NRW Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste
Rudolf-Kaiser prize 2023 for Experimental physics
ML4Q Young Investigator Award 2023
ERC Starting Grant 2021
ML4Q Independence Grant Fellowship
By-Fellowship Churchill College, University of Cambridge
SAMOP dissertation prize 2017 finalist, Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
Workshop on Topological Quantum Matter with Atoms and Photons 2025, Collège de France, Paris
Quantum Colloquium EPFL, Lausanne
Condensates of Light 2024, Bad Honnef
QACTUS 2023 (Quantum coherent dynamics), Barcelona
META 2023 (Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals, Plasmonics Conference), Paris
Workshop on Low Dimensional Quantum Gases, Sao Paulo
QSEC2022 (Quantum Systems in Extreme Conditions), Bingen
Quantum Colloquium at Atominstitut TU Wien, Vienna
ICAP 2022 (27th International Conference on Atomic Physics), Toronto
Open System Control of Atomic and Photonic Matter, Bad Honnef
FINESS 2022 (Finite Temperature Non-Eq. Superfluid Systems), St. Martin
Designing in and out of equilibrium quantum systems (DESEOQ), Oxford
Nonequilibrium phenomena in superfluid & coherent quantum systems, Newcastle
LPHYS 2018 (27thInternational Laser Physics Workshop), Nottingham
BEC 2017 (Frontiers in Quantum Gases), Sant Feliu de Guíxol
QFLM 2017 (Quantum Fluids of Light and Matter), Cargèse
DPG Spring Meeting: Dissertation Prize 2017 Symposium, Mainz
FNM 2017 (Functional and Nanostructured Materials Workshop), Tbilisi
EMN Meeting 2016 (Light-Matter Interactions), Singapore
PIERS 2015 (Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium), Prague
