Gruppenleitung

Professional career 
since 10/2013 Professor for Experimental Physics, University Siegen
2006-2013 Senior Scientist DESY, Hamburg
2004-2005 Post-Doctoral researcher University of California San Diego, USA
2001-2004 Post-Doctoral researcher University Dortmund

Academic education  
2012 Habilitation in Experimental Physics, University of Dortmund
1997-2001 PhD in Experimental Physics, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
1992-1997 Studies of Physics at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
 

Scientific Leadership and governance (selected)

Chair, Committee for Synchrotron Research (KFS) (2023 - present)   

Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee, MAX IV Synchrotron, Sweden (2026-2029) 

Chair, DIG-UM Overview Board (2024 - present) 

Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, ESRF Grenoble (2018-2021, reappointed 2026-2029)  

Member, Scientific Council, DESY (2026-2029)  

Co-Spokesperson DAPHNE4NFDI Consortium (2021 - present) 

Member Project Advisory Committee BESSY III( 2024 - present) 

Reviewer for ESRF, PSI, European XFEL, PETRA II, LCLS 

Spokesperson, BMBF Röntgen-Angström Cluster and ErUM Data Collaborations

Research interests
X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS) of hard and soft condensed matter systems, dynamics of dense
protein systems, dynamics of chiral spin systems