Scientific career

04/2019 – Max Planck Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany, Quantum Optoacoustics

06/2015 – 02/2019 Research fellow, The University of Sydney, CUDOS, Australia, Nonlinear Optical Phononics (Prof. Benjamin Eggleton)

10/2012 – 05/2015 Postdoctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany, Optical Communication and Quantum Communication (Prof. Gerd Leuchs)

02/2012 – 09/2012Postdoctoral fellow, Institute FEMTO-ST, Besançon, France, Nonlinear Optics and Optoacoustics (Dr. Thibaut Sylvestre)

Academic education

01/2009 – 01/2012 Doctoral thesis, Institute FEMTO-ST, Besançon, France, “Brillouin scattering in photonic crystal fibre: from fundamentals to fibre optic sensors”, (Dr. Thibaut Sylvestre, Dr. Hervé Maillotte)

10/2003 – 12/2008 Master’s degree Mathematics / Physics / Education, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, Master thesis: „Fabrication of periodically poled LiNbO3 for nonlinear optical frequency conversion by quasi phase matching“ (Prof. Jan-Peter Meyn, Prof. Christine Silberhorn)

Selected awards, fellowships, services

2020 Editorial board New Journal of Physics

2020 Fellow of the Max Planck School of Photonics

2019 Conference chair, “Workshop on Optomechanics and Brillouin scattering - WOMBAT 2021”, Erlangen, Germany (planned for 16-18 June 2021)

2019 Guest editor for APL Photonics for the Topical Issue “Optoacoustics - Advances in High-Frequency Optomechanics and Brillouin Scattering”

2018 Co-Chair, “Nanophotonics 2018 – the next frontier”, Canberra, Australia

2016 Co-Chair, “Quantum photonic connections conference”, Sydney, Australia

2013 – 2015 Cusanuswerk career development program

2011 Prix A’Doc 2011 of the Université Franche-Comté

2009 – 2011 CNRS PhD Scholarship

2009 Ohm-Preis 2008/2009 of the Physics department at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

2004 – 2008 Scholarship Cusanuswerk