Curriculum Vitae


09/2020 – present Science manager at the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG)
10/2022 – present Programme Officer for the DFG Review Board “Particles, Nuclei and Fields”
09/2020 – 10/2022 Programme Officer for Collaborative Research Centres (Sonderforschungsbereiche)
05/2018 – 08/2020 Researcher at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at KU Leuven
10/2014 – 04/2018 Researcher in the Cosmology Group at the University of Szczecin
01/2015 PhD in Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne
02/2011 – 09/2014 PhD student in the group of Prof. Claus Kiefer at the University of Cologne
11/2010 Diploma in Physics (equivalent to a Master’s degree), University of Bonn
04/2005 – 11/2010 Diploma studies in Physics at the University of Bonn
01 – 06/2009 Erasmus exchange student at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)  (since 2018: Sorbonne Université):
Master 2 – Concepts fondamentaux de la physique: Parcours de physique théorique

Honors and awards


05/2012 First Award in the 2012 Essay Contest of the Gravity Research Foundation
together with Claus Kiefer for the essay
“Can effects of quantum gravity be observed in the cosmic microwave background?”
10/2008 – 09/2013 5-year Honors Fellowship awarded by the Bonn–Cologne Graduate School of Physics and Astronomy