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Education | 1980-1984 | primary school ``Am Strückerberg'' |
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| 1984-1993 | High school
``Städt. Gymnasium Gevelsberg'' |
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| | degree: Abitur as the best of 62 students |
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| 1994-1998 | Study of physics at Dortmund University |
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| | degree: ``Diplom-Physiker'' |
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| | Grade: A (with honours) |
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| 1998-1999 | Graduate studies at University of California, San Diego, GPA 4.0
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| 1999-2001 | PhD in theoretical physics
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Dortmund University, title: Investigations on quantum
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mechanical correlations with the DMRG |
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Grade: with honours (=0.7)
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2002-2004 |
Advanced studies of economics and business administration |
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at FernUniversität Hagen |
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Employment |
1991-1995 | Teaching computer science for the |
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| 1993-1994 | Civil service for ``Freie Alten- |
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| 1998 | Dortmund University, Research Assistant |
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| 1998 | UC San Diego, Research Assistant |
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| 1999 | UC San Diego, Research Fellow |
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| 1999 | Dortmund University, Research Assistant |
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| 2001-2002 | Institute for Nanotechnology, Research Center Karlsruhe, Researcher |
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| 2002-2004 | RWE Systems AG, Department of Business Development |
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| | Job Title: "Referent für Unternehmensentwicklung" |
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| 2004-2006 | Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, University of California, San Diego, USA |
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Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Distinguished PKS Fellow |
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Technische Universität Darmstadt, Dept. of Biology, |
| | | Head of Bioinformatics&Theo.Biology Group & Juniorprofessor |
| | 2010 | Positive Evaluation of Juniorprofessor,
Technische Universität Darmstadt |
| | 2011 | Professor(Cooptation), Dept. of Physics,
Technische Universität Darmstadt |
| | 2011 | Professor(Cooptation), Dept. of Computer Science,
Technische Universität Darmstadt |
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Scholarships | 1994-1998 | Fellow of the Studienstiftung des dt. Volkes |
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| 1998 | Research Fellowship |
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| | UC San Diego
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| 1999-2001 |
PhD-Fellow of the Studienstiftung des dt. Volkes |
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| 1999-2001 |
PhD-Fellow of the Fonds der chemischen
Industrie |
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| 2004-2006 | Liebig-Fellowship of the Fonds der |
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Honours | 1994 | Statewide second award in federal |
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| | science contest for constructing and |
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| | programming a parallel-computer ("Jugend forscht") |
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| 1998 | Award for the best diploma thesis |
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| | of Dortmund University in 1998 |
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| 2003 | Award for the best PhD-thesis in physics |
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| | of Dortmund University in 2001/2002 |
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| 2005 - 2009 | Elected Member,
Center for Interdisciplinary Research, |
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| | Bielefeld University, Germany |
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| 2009 - 2011 | Nominated Fellow,
Forum for Interdisciplinary Research, |
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| | Technical University Darmstadt, Germany |
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| 2011 | Award for outstanding research achievements, TU Darmstadt |
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Memberships | |
Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft |
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Scientific Committee of the HPC-Cluster of the state of Hesse |
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Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie insbes.
AG Theoretische Chemie |
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International Society for Computational Biology |
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Biophysical Society |
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Gesellschaft für Informatik |
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Languages
| | German (native speaker) |
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| | English (business fluent) |
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| | Latin |
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IT-Knowledge
| | C++, Python, R, C, HTML, Java, LaTeX,
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| | MPI, Unix, SQL, Perl, Mathematica,
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Windows, MS-Office (Access, Excel, Powerpoint, Word) |
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