10/1983 - 4/1989 | Physics at RWTH Aachen (Diploma) |
5/1989-6/1989 | Technical University Delft, The Netherlands |
7/1989 - 12/1992 | Ph. D. studies at the Institute of Thin Films and Ion Technology (ISI), Research Centre Jülich |
1/1993- 8/1993 | Post-Doc at the Institute of Thin Films and Ion Technology (ISI), Research Centre Jülich |
9/1993- 8/1994 | Post-Doc at Research Lab of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA |
8/1994 - 6/2000 | Habilitation at RWTH Technical University Aachen |
10/2000-2/2001 | NTT Research and Development Center, Basic Research Laboratories, Atsugi-shi, Japan |
4/2011-3/2013 | interim professorship, II. Physikalisches Institut A, RWTH Aachen |
since 8/1994 | Researcher at Peter Grünberg Institute (formerly Institute of Bio- and Nanosystems) |
since 2/2009 | apl. Prof. RWTH Aachen |
since 9/2012 | Spokesperson of the Virtual Institute of Topological Insulators (VITI) |