Education and Academic Career

Professor (W3)

Group Leader

Habilitation

Postdoc

Postdoc

Doctorate

Degree programme

Awards und Fellowships

MPSP Fellow - Max Planck School of Photonics, Germany

North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts

OSA Fellow - Optical Society of America

ERC Consolidator Grant, European Commission

Silver medal Czech Technical University Prague

Fellow of Leopoldina National Academy of Science, Germany

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize, German Research Foundation (DFG)

The Young Academy (Die Junge Akademie, JA), Germany

Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prize, German Research Foundation (DFG)

Medal of the Werner-von-Siemens-Ring Foundation

Hertha-Sponer-Prize, German Physical Society (DPG)

Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, UK

Ohm-prize, best PhD in physics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Miscellaneous

Member of acatech - National Academy of Science and Engineering

Spokesperson, Institute for Photonic Quantum Systems (PhoQS), Paderborn University

Member of Advisory Board, Paderborn University

Board member of TRR 142 "Tailored Nonlinear Photonics"

Chair of the PhD Committee, Department of Physics, Paderborn University

Board member of CeOPP, Paderborn, Germany

Spokesperson, DFG TRR 142 "Tailored Nonlinear Photonics"

Vice President for Research and Junior Academics, Paderborn University

Executive Board of Department of Physics, Paderborn University

Scientific Engagement

Organisation of Scientific Events

Program chair for QIM 2021, Quantum Information and Measurement

Chair of the organizing committee for CEWQO 2019, Paderborn, Germany

Program/General chair CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2016/2017, Munich

Organiser of the 453. WE-Heraeus Seminar "Quantum communication based on integrated optics", Bad Honnef, Germany

Engagement in Scientific Organisations

Selection Committee Member, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Programme, DFG

Member of the German Science and Humanities Council (Wissenschaftsrat/WR)

Member of scientific advisory board of Munich Quantum Valley (MQV)

Member of External Advisory Board of the Center for IQST (Integrated Quantum Science and Technology), Ulm/Stuttgart, Germany

Founding member of the Institute of Photonic Quantum Systems (PhoQS), Paderborn, Germany

Member of International Scientific Board "Centre for Quantum Optical Technologies" at the University of Warsaw, Poland

Member of scientific advisory board of Quantum Austria, FWF Austrian Science Fund, Vienna, Austria

Member of Research Board of Einstein Foundation Berlin, Germany

Editorial Boards and Editorship

Outstanding Referee for the journals of the American Physical Society