personal data

born 5. 6. 1970 in Cologne, Germany

married, 3 children

university education & academic career

Physics and Crystallography,

Universität zu Köln, Germany

diploma in Solid State Physics at German Aerospace Agency (DLR), Cologne (Germany),

degree: Dipl. Phys.

Ph.D-thesis at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich (Switzerland),

degree: Dr. rer. nat.

habilitation in Physical Chemistry at Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany),

degree: Dr. rer. nat. habil.                                                 

Chair for Materials and Processes for Energy Conversion and Storage

Institute of Physical Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University (Germany)

scientific appointments

Research Associate (C1) at Institute for Physical Chemistry,

Technische Universität Darmstadt

Lecturer at Institute for Physical Chemistry,

University Freiburg

Group Leader at Institute for Applied Materials – Energy Storage Systems (IAM-ESS),

Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT)

director at the Institute of Energy and Climate Research,

Fundamental Electrochemistry (IEK-9)

at Forschungszentrum Jülich

and

Chair (W3) for Materials and Processes for Energy Conversion and Storage

Institute of Physical Chemistry

RWTH Aachen University

visiting scientist:

• National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee (USA)
• Department of Materials Engineering, Technion Haifa (Israel)
• State Key Laboratory for Multi-disciplinary Materials Research, Xi’an Jiaotong University (China)
• National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba (Japan)

project leader:

• DFG Priority Program 1051 (2002-2004)
• DFG Center of Excellence 595 (2002-2010)

board member:

ú         DFG Center of Excellence 595 (2007-10)

ú         German Physical Society (DPG), section dielectric solids (2010-2013)

ú         International Symposium on Functional Materials, ISFM (since 2009)

ú         Special Symposium on Advances in Functional Materials, AFM (since 2011)

research focus

energy storage:

• intercalation batteries
• conversion batteries

energy conversion:

• solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs)
• oxide ferrolectrics
• nano-scale thermoelectrics

spectroscopy:

• advanced multi-pulse and multi-frequency EPR
• ‘in-operando’ magnetic resonance