Curriculum vitae
Academic career
| 10/1979-1/1985 | Study of physics at the Universität Stuttgart |
| 29.1.1985 | Diploma in physics at the Universität Stuttgart |
| 2/1985-9/1985 | Ph.D. student at the Universität Stuttgart |
| 9/1985-8/1986 | Guest scientist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (USA) with financial support by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes |
| 9/1986-7/1988 | Ph.D. student at the Universität Stuttgart |
| 17.10.1988 | Graduation (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Universität Stuttgart, title of the thesis: Anwendung von Funktionalintegralen auf Transport- und Relaxationsphänomene in dissipativen Quantensystemen (Application of functional integrals to transport and relaxation phenomena in dissipative quantum systems) |
| 8/1988-7/1993 | Scientific assistant in the department of physics at the Universität-GH Essen(1) |
| 6.7.1993 | Habilitation in theoretical physics at the Universität-GH Essen(1), title of the habilitation thesis: Ladungseffekte in ultrakleinen Tunnelkontakten (Charging effects in ultrasmall tunnel junctions) |
| 8/1993-12/1993 | Guest scientist in the collaborative research center 237, Universität-GH Essen(1) |
| 1/1994-4/1994 | Heisenberg fellow of the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft |
| 1.5.1994 | Appointment as professor (C3) at the Institut für Physik of the Universität Augsburg |
Research visits
| 3/1994-4/1994 | Guest scientist in the Groupe Quantronique of the Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (France) |
| 9/1998-4/1999 | Research visit in the Service de Physique de l'Etat Condensé of the Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (France) |
| 3/2003-6/2003 | Resarch visit at the Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg (France) |
| 3/2004 | Professeur invité at the Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg(2) (France) |
| 9/2004 | Professeur invité at the Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris (France), research visit in the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel in Paris (France) |
| 10/2008-3/2009 | Research visit in the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel in Paris (France) |
| 2/2009-3/2009 | Professeur invité at the Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris (France) |
| 3/2011 | Professeur invité at the Université de Strasbourg (France) |
| 3/2012 | Research visit at the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) |
| 3/2013 | Research visit at the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) |
| 9/2013-3/2014 | Research visit at the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel in Paris (France) |
| 11/2013 | Professeur invité at the Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris (France) |
Awards
| 1994 | Gottschalk-Diederich-Baedeker award |
| 1999 | Award for good teaching 1998 of the Bavarian minister of state of science, research, and art |
| 2008 | Outstanding referee of the American Physical Society |
| 2008, 2009, 2011 | Distinguished referee of EPL |
| 2019 | Badge of honor of the Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft (German Physical Society) |
Participation in scientific societies and organizations and editorial activities
| 5/2002-4/2007 | Co-Editor of Europhysics Letters |
| 5/2007-4/2010 | Advisory Editor of EPL (former Europhysics Letters) |
| 7/2011-12/2016 | Editor of The European Physical Journal B |
| 4/2015-3/2019 | Member of the executive board for higher education and junior scientists of the Deutsche Physikalischen Gesellschaft (German Physical Society) |
| 6/2015-5/2019 | Speaker of the Konferenz der Fachbereiche Physik (conference of physics departments) |
| 2019-2023 | Member of the conseil scientifique d'institut (scientific council) of the Institut de Physique of the CNRS |
| 7/2019-6/2025 | Member of the programme accreditation commission of ASIIN |
| since 12/2020 | Chair of the accreditation commission of ASIIN (together with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kathrin Lehmann) |
Organization of meetings
| 8.9.-12.9.1996 | 164. WE-Heraeus-Seminar Quantum Chaos and Dissipation at Schloss Reisensburg (together with T. Dittrich) |
| 20.7.-1.8.2003 | International WE-Heraeus Summer School Fundamentals of Quantum Communication and Information Processing in Wittenberg (together with P. Schwab) |
| 11.4.-14.4.2011 | International workshop on Noise in Non-Equilibrium Systems: From Physics to Biology at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden (together with W. Häusler and P. Talkner) |