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
 

Professional activities 

Chair of the KFS - Kommittee für Synchrotronforschung (2023-) 

Scientific Advisory Committee of MAX IV Synchrotron, Sweden (2023-) 

Scientific Advisory Committee of the European Synchroton ESRF Grenoble (2018-2021)

Chair of DIG-UM Overview Board (2024-)

Project Advisory Committee (PAC) BESSY III (2024-)

Wissenschaftlicher Beirat Synchrotron DELTA Dortmund (2024-)

Co-Spokesperson of the DAPHNE4NFDI consortium (2021-)

Spokesperson of the DAPHNE4NFDI consortium within NFDI (2022-2023)
Member Kommittee für Synchrotronforschung (KFS) (2014-)
Digitalization Board of DIGUM
Proposal review panels at ESRF (Grenoble, France), PSI (Switzerland), Eu-XFEL, PETRA III, LCLS (Stanford SLAC) 
Spokesperson of BMBF Röntgen-Angström Cluster Protein Dynamics

Spokesperson of BMBF Röntgen-Angström Cluster Soft X-ray XPCS
Spokesperson of long-term proposals at the Eu-XFEL, ESRF, PETRA III

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