Career after graduation
since 10/2004
- Microstructure analytics at RWTH Aachen University and head of the Gemeinschaftslabor für Elektronenmikroskopie at RWTH Aachen University
since 01/2004
- Appointment as one of the two directors of the newly founded Ernst Ruska Center (ER-C) for Mikroskopie und Sepktroskopie mit Elektronen at Forschungszentrum Jülich
since 10/1999
- University professor for Mikrostrukturanalytik at RWTH Aachen University and head of the Gemeinschaftslabor für Elektronenmikroskopie at RWTH Aachen University
02/1990 – 09/1999
- Scientific employee at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart
04/1988 – 12/1989
- Post-Doc am Materials Department des College of Engineering der University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Memberships
- DPG: Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
- DGE: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Elektronenmikroskopie, Mitglied des Vorstands von 2001 – 2009
- DGM: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde
- MSA: Microscopy Society of America
Awards
1996
- Outstanding Technical Paper Award 1996 at the World Congress on Powder Metallurgy and Paticulate Materials, Washington D.C
1993
- John Matthews Memorial Lecture, Conference of the Electron Microscopy Society of South Africa