1996 – 2003 Student of Electrical Engineering at RWTH-Aachen University
2001 6 month internship at Agilent Labs, Palo Alto, USA “MBE-growth of VCSEL Lasers”
2003 Diploma in Electrical Engineering from RWTH Aachen University
2003-2007 PHD student at Institute for Semiconductor Electronics (Prof. H. Kurz) RWTH Aachen University
Thesis Title: “Si/SiO2 quantum wells for next generation solar cells”
2007 Winner of the EMRS Young Scientist Award, EMRS Spring meeting, Strasbourg, France
2008 Post Doc at the Institute for Semiconductor Electronics (Prof. H. Kurz) RWTH Aachen University
2009-now Researcher at Bosch corporate research, department for microsystem technologies, Project Manager scouting project “Quantum- and Nanotechnology”