Curriculum Vitae |
Since Nov. 2007: | Research Associate in the CDF Group of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL, U.S.A. |
2003-2007: | Postdoc in the CDF Group of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA, U.S.A. |
1999-2003: | Scientific Employee at the Max-Planck-Institute (MPI) for Physics, Munich, Germany |
1998-1999: | Scientific Employee at the Department of Physics at the University of Aachen (RWTH), Germany |
2003-05: | "Feodor Lynen Fellowship" from the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation |
2003: | Young scientist award "Otto Hahn Medal" (2002) of the Max Planck Society |
2003: | Best Ph.D. thesis award "Borchers Medal" from the University of Aachen (RWTH) |
2002: | Grant from the European Union ("Improving Human Research Potential") |
1998-2002: | Ph.D. Student in Particle Physics (Dr. rer. nat. grade: summa cum laude) Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany, University of Aachen (RWTH) , Germany Ph.D. Thesis: Studies of Quantum Chromodynamics and Measurement of the Strong Coupling Constant αS at 14 - 44 GeV with the JADE detector Adviser: Prof. Dr. Siegfried Bethke |
1994-1997: | Studies of physics at the University of Aachen (RWTH), Germany (Dipl. Phys., grade: very good) |
2006: | Geant4 Tutorial Workshop in Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
2000: | SLAC Summer Institute of Particle Physics in Stanford, California, U.S.A. |
1998: | CERN European School of High Energy Physics in St. Andrews, Scotland |
1997: | Fall School of High Energy Physics in Maria Laach, Germany |