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Education
2008    Professor, Production Engineering, University of Bremen, Germany.
2003    Habilitation, Process Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
1999     Ph.D., Process Engineering, University of Freiberg, Germany.
1999     Dipl.-Ing., Process Engineering, University of Freiberg, Germany.
1996     M. Sc., Appl. Physics, University of Applied Sciences Zwickau, Germany.
1993     B. Sc., Physics, Technical Univiversity Zwickau, Germany.
Professional Experience
2024       Member of The German Science and Humanities Council (Research buildings and infrastructure)
2024       Spokesperson of the DFG Review Board of Process Engineering, Technical Chemistry
2022       Member of the Board of Trustees Möller-Foundation for Science and Research, Hamburg
2021       Spokesperson Priority Programme (DFG) 2289 “Hetero Agregates”
2020       Member of the DFG Review Board of Process Engineering, Technical Chemistry
2018       Director of the Leibniz Institute for Materials Engineering IWT, Bremen, Germany
2017       Member of acatech
2016-21 Spokesperson of CRC 1232 "Farbige Zustände" - High Throughput for Evolutionary Structural Materials
2008-15 Lecturer University of California, Los Angeles
2008-17 Director of Process & Chemical Engineering Division, Foundation Institute for Materials Science (IWT), Faculty of the Department of Production Engineering, University of Bremen, Germany.
2005-07 Lecturer and Senior Research Associate, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
2003-05 Senior Lecturer (Privatdozent, PD), ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
1999-03 Senior Scientist (Oberassistent) and project leader at the ETH Zürich, Particle Technology Laboratory (Group Prof.  Dr. Pratsinis).
1996-99 Research Assistant at Fraunhofer Institute of Toxicology and Aerosol Research, Hannover, Germany, (Aerosol Technology Group Prof.  Dr. Koch).
1995      Research Assistant at Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
1994      Research Associate
Research Interest
Spray processing for particulate materials and functional surfaces, particle science and engineering, particulate systems, reactive and non-reactive spray systems, aerosol manufacturing of materials, nanoparticle technology, air pollution, environmental health (“nanotox”).
Awards
2018    ERC Advanced grant
2017    Member of the Academy of Science and Engineering, acatech
2017    Reimar Lüst Award of the Max Planck Society (MPI)
2017    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the DFG, German Research Foundation
2009    DECHEMA Award
2005    SMOLUCHOWSKI Award conferred by the Aerosol Society
2004    BASF Award in Process Eng. for a young scientist whose research brings the close relationship between natural and engineering sciences at a high level