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Education

Dr. habil. rer. nat.	Physics, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Prof. Gerd Leuchs	2014
Ph.D.	Physics, Yale University, USA Advisor: Prof. A. Douglas Stone	2004
M.Phil, M.S.	Physics, Yale University, USA	2002
Vordiplom	Physik & Mathematics BTU Cottbus, Germany	1997

Research

Department of Physics, University of Otago Dunedin, New Zealand senior lecturer	Sept. 2015 - present
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light Erlangen, Germany Groupleader WhiGaMoR	Nov. 2014 - Aug. 2015
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg & Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light Erlangen, Germany Akademischer Rat a.Z., with Prof. Gerd Leuchs	Dec. 2009 - Oct. 2015
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light Erlangen, Germany Postdoctoral Associate, with Prof. Lijun Wang	Jan. 2009 - Nov. 2009
Max Planck Research Group, Institute of Optics University of Erlangen, Germany Postdoctoral Associate, with Prof. Lijun Wang	2005 - 2008
Department of Nonlinear Science, Advanced Telecommunication Research Wave Engineering Laboratories with Prof. Takahisa Harayama, Visiting Scholar, with the “Japan-Trust”	July - August 2005
Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, USA Postdoctoral Associate, with Prof. A. Douglas Stone	2005
Physics Department, Yale University, USA Doctoral Research, Thesis Advisor: Prof. A. Douglas Stone, Directionality and Vector resonances of Regular and Chaotic Dielectric Microcavities	1999 - 2004
Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, USA Experimental Research, with Prof. Richard Chang	2004

Fellowships and Grants

DFG Heisenberg fellowship	July 2015
DFG research grant	July 2015
DAAD/DFG travel grant to Singapore and Sydney	April 2009
Japan Trust Fellowship, Japan	2005
DFG travel grant	2005
Post Doctoral Fellowship Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, USA	2005
Teaching & Tutoring Fellowship (multiple) Yale University, USA	1998-2003
Graduate Student Stipend Yale University, USA	1998-2004
Friedrich Ebert Foundation Scholar, Germany	1998

Teaching

Lectures at University of Otago

PHSI232 - Optics

second semester 2015

Lectures at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Anwendungen der Physik & Physics of biosensing	SS 2015
Anwendungen der Physik	SS 2014
SAOT - Winter Academy	WS 2013/2014
Introduction to Quantum Optics	WS 2013/2014
Scheinseminar “Physics of Light: the Quantum and the Classical”	WS 2013/2014
Anwendungen der Physik	SS 2013
Anwendungen der Physik & Physik der Biosensorik	SS 2012
Nichtlineare Optik mit Anwendungen in der Quantenoptik	WS 2011/2012
Anwendungen der Physik & Physics of Biosensing	SS 2011
Photonische Materialien und Anwendungen	WS 2010/2011
Anwendungen der Physik & Integrierte Optik	SS 2010

Teaching at Yale University

Residential Math & Science Tutor Davenport College, Yale University	2001 - 2003
Teaching Fellow Physics Department, Yale University Physics Department, BTU-Cottbus, Germany	1999 - 2001 1997 - 1998

Selected Seminars

One Ring to bind them all: optical resonators from the THz to visible Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand	December 2014
Crystalline Whispering gallery mode Resonators PIERS 2014, Guangzhou, China	August 2014
Nonlinear Optical Properties of Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators Ottawa Summer School organized by Paul Corkum & Bob Boyd, Canada	June 2014
WE-Heraeus Seminar #560 “Taking Detection to the limit: Biosensing with optical Microcavities” Scientific Organizer, Bad Honnef, Germany	April 2014
Crystalline WGM Resonators: linear and non-linear applications from the visible to THz French-Russian-German Laser Symposium, Besançon, France	Nov 2013
Non-linear optics & polarization in birefringent Whispering gallery mode resonators WOMA 2013 - Workshop on Microcavities and Applications, Beijing, China	May 2013
Whispering gallery mode resonators Workshop with Boyd Group on quantum and non-linear light, Mont-Tremblant, Canada	February 2013
THz whispering gallery mode resonators and complex polarization states 43rd Winter Conference on the Physics of Quantum Electronics, Snowbird, Utah USA	January 2013
Whispering Gallery Mode Resonator based Optical up-conversion of cw-THz radiation TERA-2012, 2nd conference on “Terahertz and Microwave radiation: Generation, Detection and Applications”, Moscow, Russia	June 2012
WE-Heraeus Seminar #492 “Micro and Macro Cavities in Classical and Non-Classical Light” Scientific Organizer, Bad Honnef, Germany	November 2011
WGM enhanced THz detection GRFLS, “German, Russian, French Laser Symposium”, Gößweinstein, Germany	April 2011
Single Reflection Goos-Hänchen Shift Beam Shift Workshop 2011, Leiden, Netherlands	March 2011
Lecture on Mixed Phase Space Summer School “Mesoscopic Physics in Complex Media”, Cargèse, Corsica, France	July 2010
Terahertz resonators, identical coupled disks and directional emission WOMA, Int. Workshop on Microcavities and Applications, Seoul, South Korea	August 2009
High Frequency Resonances in Clusters of Dielectric Disks Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia	April 2009
Terahertz photonic molecules with coupled whispering gallery mode resonators CUDOS, Sydney, Australia	April 2009
Terahertz and Optical Microcavities Division of Physics & Applied Physics, School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore	April 2009
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, Pasadena, CA, USA	August 2007
Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan	August 2005
Minisymphosium Dynamic Days Europe, Berlin, Germany	July 2005
ATR Kyoto, Japan	July 2005
Max-Planck-Research Group, Erlangen, Germany	May 2005
Vahala Group, California Institute of Technology, USA	April 2005