Curriculum Vitae

Education

1962-1972 Primary and secondary school in Gera
1972-1974 Grammar school in Gera
1974 Abitur (university entrance examination)

Training and Professional Positions

1976-1981 Study of physics at the University of Leipzig
1981 Diploma thesis in physics
1981-1984 Research scholarship of the University of Leipzig
1984 Doctor of Physics (PhD thesis), University of Leipzig
1996 Habilitation, University Bayreuth
1997 Venia legendi for Theoretical Physics
   
1984-1988 Research Associate at the University Leipzig
Mar 1989 Leaving the former German Democratic Republic
1989-1993 Research Associate at the University Bayreuth
1993-1997 Assistant Lecturer at the University Bayreuth
1998/1999 Guest Professor at the University of Saarland
1997-2002 Lecturer at the University Bayreuth
2002 Full Professor at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald - Complex Quantum Systems -
Dec 2002 Turned down a professorship in Theoretical Physics at the Technical University Graz
2004-2017 Member of the Faculty Board (mathematics - natural sciences)
2005-2016 Member of the executive committee of the Collaborative Research Center Transregio 24 "Fundamentals of Complex Plasmas"
Feb 2005 Gordon Godfrey Visiting Professorship at the University of New South Wales, Sydney
2005-2009 Vice-chairman of the scientific board of the Institute of Low Temperature Plasma Physics
Jan-Mar 2011 Professorial Visiting Fellow, School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2012-2017 Club member of the Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology
2012-2017 Member of the executive committee of the International Helmholtz Graduate School for Plasma Physics
2012-2017 Executive Director Institute of Physics
2011- 2021 Member of the Steering Commitee of the Supercomputing Centre Stuttgart
2021- Member of the Steering Commitee of the NHR@FAU Erlangen
   

Longer Visits Abroad:

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Czech Academy of Sciences Prague, University of New South Wales Sydney