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Scientific Vita

Scientific Staff Position:

• 01/1997 - 10/2010
  Staff scientist Fritz-Haber-Institute, Berlin
  Department of Chemical Physics (Prof. Dr. H.-J. Freund)

Postdoctorial Positions:

• 11/1999 - 12/2000
  Postdoctoral fellow at the Jules Stein Eye Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, (Prof. Dr. W. L. Hubbell)

Postgraduate Education and Positions:

• 08/1993 - 12/1996
  PhD student at the Ruhr-University Bochum.
  Department of Physical Chemistry (Prof. Dr. H.-J. Freund)
• 12/1996
  Doctoral thesis at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Department of Physical Chemistry (Prof. Dr. H.-J. Freund)
  Title of the thesis: 'Investigation of the molecular dynamics of selfassembled fatty acid films on well ordered oxide films by ESR-spectroscopy'

Scientific Awards and Grants

• 07/1991-03/1993
  Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
• 12/1993-12/1996
  PhD-scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
• 01/1994-12/1996
  Scholarship of the Graduiertenkolleg 'Dynamische Prozesse an Festkörperoberflächen'
• 11/1999-12/2000
  Research fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
• 05/2008
  Nenrst Haber Bodenstein Award

University Education

• 10/1987- 05/1993
  University of Cologne, student of chemistry, diploma in chemistry
• 05/1993
  Diploma thesis: 'Construction of a Kelvin probe and band structure calculations on copper compounds', Department of Physical Chemistry (Prof. Dr. G. Hohlneicher), University of Cologne