Curriculum Vitae
Objective
| Research and teaching in theoretical and computational physics in an internationally leading university |
Current position
| Professor in the Department of Physics and Member of the Centre for Scientific Computing |
Academic Qualifications
| D.Sc. | April, 30th 2007 | University of Warwick |
| Habilitation | April, 19th 2000 | Technische Universität Chemnitz |
| Ph.D. | June, 12th 1994 | University of Utah (lineage) |
| Dipl.-Phys. | December, 16th 1991 | Freie Universität Berlin |
| Cand.-Phys. | October, 22nd 1988 | Freie Universität Berlin |
| Abitur | June, 12th 1985 | Wolfgang-Ernst Gymnasium, Büdingen |
Education
| 01/1992-07/1994 | Ph.D. thesis work with Prof. B. Sutherland (University of Utah) on an exactly solvable quantum many-body problem with competing long-range interaction, grade: A |
| 12/1990-12/1991 | Diploma thesis work with Prof. R. Schrader (Freie Universität Berlin) on ground state properties of spin-lattice models, grade: sehr gut (A) |
| 05/1990-12/1990 | physics graduate student at the Freie Universität Berlin |
| 08/1989-05/1990 | exchange graduate student at Duke University, North Carolina |
| 10/1988-07/1989 | physics graduate student at the Freie Universität Berlin |
| 10/1986-10/1988 | physics undergraduate student at the Freie Universität Berlin |
Career
| 09/2019-07/2020 | Senior International Fellow-In-Residence at the Institut d’études avancées - IEA / Institute for Advanced Studies - IAS of the Université de Cergy-Pontoise |
| 10/2010-present | Professor in Physics at the Department of Physics of the University of Warwick |
| 07/2007-06/2010 | Director of the Centre for Scientific Computing |
| 10/2005-09/2010 | Associate Professor, Department of Physics of the University of Warwick |
| 01/2005-06/2007 | Associate Director of the Centre for Scientific Computing |
| 10/2002-09/2005 | Lecturer in Computational Physics at the Department of Physics and the Centre for Scientific Computing of the University of Warwick |
| 01/2000-09/2002 | Senior Research Associate (Assistent/Oberassistent) with Prof. M. Schreiber at the TU Chemnitz |
| 01/1996-12/1999 | Research Associate with Prof. M. Schreiber at the TU Chemnitz |
| 09/1995-12/1995 | Research Associate with Prof. D. Vollhardt at the RWTH Aachen |
| 08/1994-09/1995 | Research Associate with Prof. B.S. Shastry at the Indian Institute of Science |
| 01/1992-06/1994 | Teaching Assistant at the University of Utah |
| 05/1990-12/1991 | Teaching Assistant at the Freie Universität Berlin |
| 01/1990-05/1990 | Teaching Assistant at Duke University |
International Experience
| 01/2016-12/2018-12/2023 | Lotus (Fu Rong) Visiting Professor, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, Hunan province, China |
| 04/2015-03/2017 | Senior Visiting Professorial Fellow, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, China |
| 09/2006 | Visiting Guest Scientist at the ICCMP UN Brasilia |
| 05-06/2004 | Visiting Guest Scientist at the MPI PKS Dresden |
| 1996-2001 | various DAAD funded short-term research stays in the U.S.A., the United Kingdom and Sri Lanka |
| 08/1994-09/1995 | Condensed Matter Theory Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research at the Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore, India |
| 01/1992-06/1994 | Department of Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A. |
| 08/1989-05/1990 | Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A. |
Honors/Awards
| 05/2011 | Fellow of The Institute of Physics (IOP), UK |
| 02/2002 | Heisenberg fellow of the German Science Foundation (DFG), Germany |
| 07/2001-08/2001 | DAAD-short term lectureship "Computer Programming and Computational Physics" at the University of Ruhuna in Matara, Sri Lanka |
| 08/1999-09/1999 | DAAD-short term lectureship "Computational Physics of Disordered Systems" at the University of Ruhuna in Matara, Sri Lanka |
| 07/1997-08/1997 | DAAD- short term lectureship "Quantum Many-Body Physics in One Dimension" at the University of Ruhuna in Matara, Sri Lanka |
| 08/1994-09/1995 | Feodor-Lynen fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation |
| 05/1994 | Thomas Parmley research prize of the Department of Physics, University of Utah |
| 07/1993-06/1994 | Quadrille Ball Scholarship of the Germanistic Society of America |
| 08/1989-05/1990 | exchange student of the Freie Universität Berlin at Duke University |
Special Skills
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