Research Interests

Development of optical instruments, light scattering, thermodiffusion, shear flow

My current work focuses on development and improvement of optical setups for the characterization of soft matter, especially on complex matter in shear flows and temperature gradients.

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Education / Research experience

since 2002	Scientific Researcher, at the Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Complex Systems, ICS-3.
2000 – 2002	Research with Prof. Fytas at the Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung in Mainz on phonons in colloidal systems.
1996 – 2000	Work for a retail business in database development and network administration.
1995	Post-doc at the University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Chemical Engineering, in the group of Prof. R. Calabrese.
1993	PhD thesis in physics with Prof. Staude, University of Bremen,  on a direct optical method for determination of instantaneous velocity gradients in turbulent flow.
1987	Diploma in physics, University of Bremen, Germany.