10/1991 - 8/1994
|
undergraduate studies in physics at the University
of
Konstanz, Germany
|
| 9/1994 – 8/1995 |
graduate studies at the Portland State University
in
Portland, Oregon, USA
|
| 12.8.1995 |
Master of Science in Physics at the Portland State
University
Thesis title: "Origins of Effective Charge of Multivalent Ions at a
Membrane/Water Interface and Distribution of 2,3,4,5--Tetrachlorophenol
in a Membrane Model System"
|
| 10/1995 - 4/1998 |
graduate studies at the
University of Konstanz,
Diploma thesis "Light Masks in Atom Lithography" in the group of Prof.
J. Mlynek |
| 8/1998 - 12/1999 |
PhD studies at the University
of Konstanz in the group of
Prof. J. Mlynek,
|
| 1/2000 - 3/2003 |
project moved with Prof. T. Pfau to University of
Stuttgart,
Germany
thesis title:
"Scattering Properties
of Ultra-cold Chromium Atoms"
|
| 4/2004 - 2/2005 |
PostDoc at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, USA
in the group of Dr. J.C. Bergquist and Dr. D.J. Wineland as a
Feodor-Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation
Project: An optical clock based on a single aluminum ion using quantum
logic |
3/2005 - today
|
University assistant at University of Innsbruck in
the group
of Prof. R. Blatt
|
| 6/2006 |
Winner
of the START
award of the BM:BWK |
| 9/2006 |
Started
an independend research group: "Direct
Frequency Comb Spectroscopy using Quantum Logic" |
| 1/2009 |
W3 Professor at the Leibniz University of Hannover and directer of the QUEST Institute for Experimental Quantum Metrology at the PTB in Braunschweig |