Research experience

2019-2021 "Junior Leaders" Research Fellow at Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Barcelona (Spain)
2016-2019 Postdoctoral Fellow at Joint Quantum Institute, College Park (USA)
2013-2016 Post-Doc at Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Barcelona (Spain),
in the group of Prof. Maciej Lewenstein


Education

2013 Ph.D. in Photonics, Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Barcelona (Spain)

Thesis: "Ultracold Atoms in Artificial Gauge Fields"

supervised by Prof. Maciej Lewenstein and Dr. Bruno Julia-Diaz
2009 Diploma in Physics, Freie Universität, Berlin

Thesis: "Real-Time Ginzburg-Landau Theory for Bosonic  Gases in Opti cal Latti ces"

supervised by Dr. Axel Pelster and Prof. Hagen Kleinert
2003-2009 Physics studies:
Freie Universität, Berlin (Germany)
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte (Brazil)
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg i. Br (Germany)
2002/03 Law Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg i. Br.
2001/02 Civil Service, Seniorentreff Bleiweiß, Nuremberg (Germany)
2001 Abitur, Sigmund-Schuckert-Gymnasium, Nuremberg


Awards

2010
Studienpreis Wilhelm-und-Else-Heraeus Foundation
2002-2007
BayBFG


Funding

08/2019 -- 07/2022
La Caixa Junior Leaders:
"Controlling topological matter with light"
03/2018 -- 02/2019
NSF through PFC@JQI:
"Probing and manipulating topological transport in graphene using light beams with orbital angular momentum"
with Dr. Tobias Huber
03/2018 -- 02/2019
NSF through PFC@JQI:
"New Directions in Many-Body Physics amd Quantum Computing enabled by EIT cooling"
with Dr. Guido Pagano, Dr. Kristin Beck, and Dr. Michael Foss-Feig


Services

Since 2017
Editorial Board of J. Phys. Comm.
2012
Outreach/Teaching at summer program by Caixa Catalunya