since October 2016 | Professor of Applied Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK |
22/6/2016 | Award of Helmholtz Preis for Applied Metrology awarded by the Helmholtz-Fonds for work with Dr Nicholas Bell on 'Digitally encoded DNA nanostructures for multiplexed, single-molecule protein sensing with nanopores' published in Nature Nanotechnology |
since July 2015 | PI ERC Consolidator Grant, DesignerPore Understanding and Designing Novel Nanopores |
since October 2013 | Reader in Experimental Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK |
December 2010 - June 2015 | PI ERC Starting Grant, PassMem Passive Membrane Transport of Organic Compounds |
Since October 2009 | College Lecturer, Gonville & Caius College , Cambridge, UK |
October 2007 - September 2013 | University Lecturer, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK |
March 2007 - January 2013 | Group Leader, Emmy Noether-Program of the Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft (DFG), "Nanopores for biological and soft-matter physics" |
October 2006 - February 2007 | Postdoc with Prof. Dr. Friedrich Kremer in the group Molekuelphysik (MOP), Institut fuer Experimentelle Physik I, University of Leipzig, Germany |
February 2003 - October 2006 | Postdoctoral Researcher with Prof. Cees Dekker, Molecular Biophysics Group , Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, now in the department of Bionanoscience Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands |
10.7.2002 | PhD in experimental Physics (Dr. rer. nat.), Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany |
June 1999 - July 2002 | PhD thesis in experimental physics: Nanolithography with an atomic force microscope: quantum point contacts, quantum rings, and quantum dots (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rolf J. Haug ) |