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Research engineer: 10/2018 – today
Corporate Research, Robert Bosch GmbH, Renningen, Germany
Postdoctoral Fellow: 10/2016 – 09/2018
Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg & Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany
Postdoctoral Fellow: 10/2013 – 09/2016
The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics
Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University, Sweden
Postdoctoral Fellow: 12/2009 – 09/2013
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik Garching, Germany
PhD student: 09/2006 – 11/2009
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik Garching, Germany

Doctoral studies: 09/2006 – 11/2009
Research leading to PhD in astrophysics (defended 02.12.2009)
Technische Universität München, Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik Garching
Dissertation title “Synthetic spectra and light curves of Type Ia supernovae”
Academic supervisors Prof. Dr. W. Hillebrandt and Dr. S.A. Sim
University studies: 10/2005 – 05/2006
Study of physics (Diploma 22.5.2006)
Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Title of diploma thesis: “Synthetic spectra of irradiated accretion discs in Dwarf Novae considering SS Cyg as example” (in german)
Academic supervisors Dr. Thorsten Nagel, Prof. Dr. K. Werner

Gliese Fellowship 2016
Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg
Oskar Klein Fellowship 2013
Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics, Stockholm University
Kavli Fellowship 2013 (declined)
Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe
Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society for 2010
awarded on the occasion of the MPS general assembly in Berlin, June 2011

Python programming for scientists, lecture course (BSc/MSc), summer term 2018, Heidelberg University
Python programming for scientists, lecture course (BSc/MSc), winter term 2017/2018, Heidelberg University
Theoretical Astrophysics, lecture course (MSc), winter term 2017/2018, Heidelberg University
Python programming for scientists, lecture course (BSc/MSc), summer term 2017, Heidelberg University
White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes – Compact Objects in Astrophysics, tutorial accompanying the lecture course, summer term 2017, Heidelberg University
04/2011 – 05/2014: Co-supervision of PhD student Ulrich Nöbauer
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik / Technische Universität München
11/2012 – 10/2013: Supervision of master student Michael Klauser
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik / Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
01/2012 – 03/2012: Supervision of bachelor student Michael Klauser
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik / Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
12/2010 – 12/2011: Co-supervision of diploma student Elisabeth Gall
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik / Technische Universität München
09/2006 – 07/2007: Tutoring of an undergraduate physics lab course
Technische Universität München

Participation in public outreach activities at the University of Tübingen, the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Stockholm University and the Heidelberg Institute of Theoretical Studies.
Development and presentation of show programs for MPA’s mobile planetarium.

Referee for Astronomy & Astrophysics, the Astrophysical Journal and the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Elected post-doc representative to the MPA’s scientific council (2011-2013)
Co-Organizer of a meeting on Explosive Stellar Transients (23./24.09.2014, Bamberg, Germany)
Organizer of a meeting on Thermonuclear Supernovae held at EWASS 2015, Tenerife, Spain
Co-Organizer of the workshop Supernovae – From Simulations to Observations and Nucleosynthetic Fingerprints held at Physikzentrum Bad Honnef (21.-24.01.2018, Bad Honnef, Germany)
Co-Organizer of the workshop Radiation Transfer and Explosive Thermonuclear Burning in Supernovae held at the Schwartz/Reisman Institute for Theoretical Physics (17.-28.06.2018, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)