Curriculum Vitae

Professional career

since
Dec. 2014

Full Professor (W3),
Chair of Large Area Optoelectronics,
University of Wuppertal

Jul. 2014

Call (W2), University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)

since
Mar. 2012

Emmy Noether research group leader

Apr. 2011 –
Dec. 2014

Assistant Professor (W1)
Institute of Electronic Devices,
University of Wuppertal

Feb. 2011 –
Mar. 2011

Feodor Lynen Return Fellow,
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH),
Institute of Electronic Devices,
University of Wuppertal

Feb. 2009 –
Jan. 2011

Feodor Lynen Research Fellow (AvH)
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Princeton University

Oct. 2008 –
Jan. 2009

Postdoc, Institute for High-Frequency Technology (IHF),
Technical University (TU) Braunschweig

Sep. 2004 –
Sep. 2008

PhD Student and Teaching Assistant, IHF,
TU Braunschweig

Education

Sep. 2004 –
Sep. 2008

PhD Student at the IHF,
TU Braunschweig,
topic: Transparent Electronics for Active Matrix Displays,
Dr.-Ing with distinction (summa cum laude)

Oct. 1999 –
Aug. 2004

Student at TU Braunschweig, Electrical Engineering,
Dipl.-Ing. with distiction (summa cum laude),
diploma awarded the Erwin-Marx-Preis 2004

Awards and Fellowships

12/2019

ERC Proof of Concept (funding amount EUR 150,000)

11/2014

ERC Starting Grant (funding amount EUR 1.5 million)

01/2014

Positive Evaluation of the Assistant Professorship (W1)

03/2013

Invitation of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) to the 5th Indo-German Frontiers of Engineering Symposium In Hyderabad,
topic: „Hybrid Materials“

12/2011

Emmy Noether Grant (funding amount EUR 1.1 million), German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - DFG)

01/2011

Feodor Lynen Return Fellowship (AvH)

10/2008

Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship for Postdocs (AvH)AvH)

11/2007

Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Silver AwardAward

05/2007

Kaiser Friedrich Research Award for Optical Technologies,
topic: transparent OLED Displays

10/2004

Erwin-Marx-Preis of the VDE Foundation,
„For Outstanding Performance in Electrical Engineering Studies“

11/2003

Study Scholarship of the Association for the Promotion of Science and Humanities in Germany (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Erich Müller-Foundation)