10/1993 - 09/1998 Universität des Saarlandes

• Material Science - Vordiplom (4.10.1995) - Diploma Thesis (1997-1998)
• Physics (in parallel) - Vordiplom (26.09.1996)

1997 Stipend from the Deutsche Studienstiftung

11/1998 - 10/99 Internship at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ, USA

12/1999 - 12/2002 Max Planck Institut for Polymer Research, Mainz, materials research group (Knoll group)

22.10.2002 PhD in Physics at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

1/2003 - 5/2005; PostDoc at Princeton University,Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
in the Microfluidics Research and Engineering Group working with Prof. S. Troian

13.5.2005 Emmy Noether-Stipend of the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for an independent research group Thin liquid films
but did not accept the stipend due to very unclear career perspective in German academia

since 1.7.2005 -   Research Staff at Shell International BV. in Rijswijk, Netherlands

Memberships

• Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG)
• American Physical Society (APS)
• Society of Core Analysts (SCA)
• Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
• GAIN network

Reviewer for

• Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
• Chemical Engineering Communications
• Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

• Scientific
• somewhat scientific
  • Computer Algebra Systems (Mathematica, Maple V, Matlab)
  • programming (C, Pascal, Delphi)
• not scientific at all
  • Skiing
  • rock climbing 1, 2

publications

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