Education

• 02/2012 - 09/2015    |    PhD student at DESY, Zeuthen & Humboldt University, Berlin
  • Degree: PhD in Physics
  • Thesis: Characterizing Cosmic Neutrino Sources: A Measurement of the Energy Spectrum and Flavor Composition of the Cosmic Neutrino Flux Observed with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
• 09/2010 - 09/2011    |    Master student at RWTH Aachen University
  • Degree: Master of Science
  • Thesis: Measurement of Radio Emission from Cosmic Ray induced Air Showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory with a Spherical Wave Reconstruction

• 07/2010 - 09/2010    |    Summer student at DESY, Zeuthen

• 08/2009 - 06/2010    |    Master student at NTNU Trondheim, Norway

• 10/2006 - 07/2009    |    Bachelor student at RWTH Aachen University
  • Degree: Bachelor of Science
  • Thesis: Continuous Spectrum Observation of the Aachen Radio Sky

Positions

• since 03/2023             |    H.E.S.S. group leader at MPIK, Heidelberg

• since 09/2021             |    Postdoctoral researcher at MPIK, Heidelberg

• since 10/2019             |    Working group convener within the H.E.S.S. Collaboration

• 09/2015 - 08/2021    |    Postdoctoral researcher at ECAP, Erlangen

• 11/2011 - 08/2015    |    Research associate at DESY, Zeuthen

Reviewer Assignments

• Worked as a reviewer for the Astrophysical Journal, Astronomy & Astrophysics, and the Dutch Research Council.

Awards

• 2019    |    H.E.S.S. Prize Spring 2019
  • Bi-annual award, received from the H.E.S.S. Collaboration for “outstanding contributions to the experiment”
  • H.E.S.S. prize web page
• 2017    |    Nomination for the dissertation award of the German physical society (DPG)
  • One out of four final candidates, invited plenary presentation at the 2017 spring meeting of the DPG (see Presentations)
• 2016    |    Global Neutrino Network (GNN) Dissertation Prize
  • Announcement (PDF)