Professional

A brief overview

After graduating from my high school 'Kant-Gymnasium' in Weil am Rhein I started studying physics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. A year after receiving my Vordiplom I enrolled in the physics department at The University of Texas at Austin where I started working in Mark Raizen's atom optics group. After receiving my M.A. from there I joined the quantum optics group at the Universität Konstanz, Germany. Two years after entering I decided to leave that group and continue my research in Mark Raizen's group. From there I graduated with a Ph.D. degree in Physics. I took up a position in industry, undergoing the transition from Bell Labs to Agere Systems to Triquint. After this tumultuous experience I was ready to focus again on research in the academic environment. After jointly working with Warren Warren in Princeton and Rahim Rizi at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia for two years I moved to Durham, where I am now research faculty in the Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Imaging at Duke University.

My work

• Experimental quantum and atom optics:
  • Quantum transport in optical lattices
  • Decay of unstable systems
  • Quantum reflection on surfaces
  • Quantum electrodynamics in high finesse cavities
• Optical communication systems research:
  • Mitigation of optical impairments in high-speed digital transmission systems
  • Chromatic and polarization mode dispersion
• Medical physics research:
  • Two-photon optical metabolic imaging
  • Hyperpolarized gas MRI

Some related links:

• Physics Department at The University of Freiburg
• Raizen Group in the Physics Department at The University of Texas at Austin
• Physics Department at The University of Konstanz
• Bell Labs, Agere Systems, Triquint Semiconductor
• MMRRCC lab in the Department of Radiology at The University of Pennsylvania
• Warren Group in the Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Imaging in the Department of Chemistry at Duke University