Curriculum Vitae
Date and place of birth: 1957, Leonberg / Württemberg, Germany
Nationality: German
Academic education and university positions:
1976-1983 Physics Diploma, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
1983-1985 Ph.D. Thesis at Hahn-Meitner-Institut HMI, Berlin (now called: "Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie")
1985-1987 Ph.D. Thesis at Institut Laue-Langevin ILL, Grenoble, France
1988 Dr. rer. nat. in Physics, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
1994 Habilitation in Experimental Physics at Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
1994-1995 Private Lecturer at Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
1995 Venia Legendi in Crystallography at Universität Hamburg
1995-1997 Private Lecturer at Universität Hamburg
Employment:
1988-1991 Research Scientist at Institut Laue-Langevin ILL, Grenoble, France
1991-1997 Research Scientist at DESY, HASYLAB, Hamburg
since 1997 Full Professor at the University Aachen (RWTH)
1997-2010 Director at the Institute of Solid State Research, Forschungszentrum Jülich
2000 Visiting scientist, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
since 2006 Director at "Jülich Centre for Neutron Science" JCNS
2008 Visiting scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
2009 & 2011-2016 Managing Director "Jülich Centre for Neutron Science" JCNS
since 2011 Director at the Peter Grünberg Institute
2015-2017 Scientific Director "Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum" MLZ
2016 Offer of a Professorship at Technical University of Munich (declined)
2019-2020 Managing Director "Jülich Centre for Neutron Science" JCNS
July 2023 Retired from position as Institute Director JCNS-2/PGI-4
Honours, Awards, Scientific Expert Committees and Advisory Boards:
1984 Member of German National Academic Foundation
1992 Dr. Friedrich Förster Prize of the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
1998-2001 Vice-Spokesman of the BMBF network project
Correlations in Magnetic Materials
1999-2002 Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Institut Laue-Langevin ILL, Grenoble, France
1999-2005 Elected member of the German Committee for Research with Neutrons KFN
2002-2005 Chairman of the German Committee for Research with Neutrons KFN
2002-2005 Vice chairman of the Committee for Condensed Matter Research with Large Facilities KEKM
2002-2005 National representative of the European Neutron Scattering Association ENSA
2005-2008 Member of the Steering Committee of the Institut Laue-Langevin ILL, Grenoble, France
2006 Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Institut Laue-Langevin ILL, Grenoble, France
2007 Vice chairman of instrument advisory committee at Laboratoire Léon Brillouin LLB, France
2008 Vice chairman ILL Steering Committee, Institut Laue-Langevin ILL, Grenoble, France
2008 - today Spokesperson for the topic "Neutrons" within the HGF programme PNI
2010-2012 Member of ORNL Neutron Scattering Science Review Committee
2011 Chairman AERES Review Committee LLB
2014 Elected member of the German Committee for Research with Neutrons KFN
2019 Chairman of the Scientific and Instrumentation Council (CSI) of the Laboratoire Leon-Brillouin (LLB)
2020–2021 Chairman and Member of the ILL Steering Committee
2020-2022 Chairman of ELENA, the European Low Energy accelerator-based Neutron facilities Association