Education

• 2011: PhD degree in Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Thesis Band Structure Based Analysis of Certain 3D Photonic Crystal Structures, supervisors Prof. Dr. K. Busch (KIT) / Prof. Dr. M. Wegener (KIT)
• 2008: Diploma in Physics, Universität Karlsruhe. Thesis Wannier Function Generation and Defect Mode Calculation for Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystals, supervisors Prof. Dr. K. Busch

Employment

• July 2019 - present: Assistant Professor, SDU.
• 2017 - 2019: Postdoc, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense.
• 2013 - 2017: Postdoc, University of Technology, Sydney.
• 2012 - 2013: Postdoc, Max-Born Institute for nonlinear optics and short pulse spectroscopy, Berlin.
• 2008 - 2011: Doct. Position, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Theoretical optics, numerical methods for PDEs, photonic band structure theory, opto-mechanics, non-Hermitian optical systems, light-matter interaction especially beyond local polarization models

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