| Since Nov. 2016 |
Staff Scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) |
| Aug. 2015 – Nov. 2016 |
Postdoc at LANL |
| July 2012 – July 2015 |
Longterm guest scientist (postdoc level) at LANL |
| Oct. 2009 – July 2012 |
Postdoc at the University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, Mathematical Physics Group |
| Mar. 2008 – Sept. 2009 |
Postdoc at the Vienna University of Technology, Institute for Theoretical Physics |
| 2007 – 2008 |
Project Assistant at the Vienna University of Technology, Institute for Theoretical Physics |
| March 2008 |
Dr.techn. in Physics (= PhD degree) with distinction
Doctoral thesis: Towards Consistent Non-Commutative Gauge Theories |
| 2005 – 2008 |
Doctoral studies in Theoretical Physics at the Vienna University of Technology |
| May 2005 |
Bachelor's degree in Astronomy with distinction |
| November 2004 |
Dipl.-Ing. in Physics (= master’s degree) with
distinction
Diploma thesis: Non-Commutative Two Plus One Dimensional Quantum
Electrodynamics with Chern-Simons Term |
| 2001 – 2005 |
Studies in Astronomy at the University of Vienna |
| 1998 – 2004 |
Studies in Physics at the Vienna University of
Technology (TU Wien) |
| May 2011 – 2014 |
APART fellowship for three years, awarded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| Mar. 2007 – Mar. 2008 |
DOC fellowship for final year of doctoral studies awarded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| Nov. 2 – Dec. 13, 2006 |
Six-week sojourn at the Theory Division of CERN, Switzerland, on scholarship from the Vienna University of Technology |
| Referee for |
Class. Quantum Grav., Eur.
Phys. J. C, SIGMA, J. Phys. A, Ann. Phys., Nucl. Phys. B, ApJ, Materials, Crystals,
Metals, Int. J. Mater. Res., Int. Mater. Rev., Int. J. Solids Struct., Mater. Res.
Lett., Int. J. Plast., Acta Mater., Scripta Mater., and J. Appl. Phys. |
| Editorial board member: |
Materials (since July 2022) |
| 2019 - present |
Mentored summer students at LANL |
| March - July 2011 |
Lecturer of the course 'Quantum field theory on non-commutative spaces' at the University of Vienna,
lecture notes: part 1, part 2 |
| Oct. 2007 - Mar. 2008 |
Instructor of the tutorial 'Mathematical Methods in Physics' at the Vienna University of Technology, Institute for Theoretical Physics |
| March - July 2006 |
Instructor of the tutorial 'Statistical Physics I' at the Vienna University of Technology, Institute for Theoretical Physics |
| Languages |
German (native), English (fluent), French (beginner) |
| Computers & Programming |
Linux, Windows, MacOS; Python, Mathematica, Fortran, C++, Bash; LATEX, HTML |