DFG postdoctoral research fellow at University of Pennsylvania supervised by Prof. Daeyeon Lee, Prof. Kathleen Stebe and Prof. Randall Kamien, USA

Postdoctoral fellow at New York University in the group of Prof. Jasna Brujic, USA

PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Physical Chemistry, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany Thesis: Modification of Nanoparticle-Surfaces for Emulsion Stabilization and Encapsulation of Active Molecules for Anti-Corrosive Coatings, grade: Magna cum laude
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Helmuth Möhwald

Diploma (Dipl. Ing. (FH)) in Process Engineering, TFH-Berlin (Beuth Hochschule), Germany
Thesis: Experimental Analysis of the Solubility of Nonpolar Drugs in Water, carried out at Technical University Berlin, Department of Thermodynamics and Thermal Process Engineering
Supervisors: Prof. Dr.-Ing. E. Löwe, Prof. Dr. habil. S. Enders, cumulative grade 1.5

Basic studies, Environmental Engineering, Fachhochschule Bingen, Germany

Civiliane service (social year), Schloss Scheune Ockstadt, Germany, home for handycapped people

Diploma from German secondary school for university admission, KBS Bad Nauheim, Germany

Research Fellowship from DFG (German Research Foundation) covering living expenses in Philadelphia for 16 months, German Research Foundation, Bonn, Germany

Lecturer for High School Teachers, Math for America, Simons Foundation, New York, USA

Guest Lecturer in the class of Prof. Pablo Garcia, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA

Teaching volunteer, Biobus.org, New York, USA<

Tutor in Physical Chemistry, University of Potsdam, Germany

Tutor in Thermodynamics and Mechanics, Beuth Hochschule Berlin, Germany

Lurgi GmbH, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, for 3 months (Basic engineering for a large scale “Methanol to Propylene” Plant)

Uhde Inventa Fischer, Berlin, Germany, for 2 months (Basic engineering for a large scale polyester plant and operation of a polylactid pilot plant)

Silica Verfahrenstechnik, Berlin, Germany, for 2 months (Construction of gas adsorption plants)

HME-Regelungstechnik, Bad Kreuznach, Germany, for 2 months (Fine mechanical metal processing)

Umweltamt (Environmental agency), Frankfurt/Main, Germany, for 2 months (Department of waste water surveillance, sample drawing and analytical contaminant determination)

Heat and mass transfer, thermic process engineering, industrial plant design, engineering mechanics, control engineering, chemical reaction engineering, 3D CAD design, apparatus engineering, computational fluid dynamics, finite element modelling, bioprocess engineering, environmental process engineering

Synthesis of colloidal particles (inorganic, polymeric, hydrogels), synthesis of polymers, surfactants (ionic, nonionic, polymeric, proteins, HLB number, packing parameter), Pickering emulsions, electrochemistry of corrosion (electrical impedance measurements, scanning vibrating electrode technique, salt chamber, polymeric barrier coatings), droplet based microfluidics, lipid and block copolymer bilayers, binary and ternary liquid mixtures, surface tension measurements (tensiometry, Langmuir-Blodgett-Pockel troughs, pendant drop and contact angle measurements), dynamic light scattering, electrophoretic mobility measurements, spectrometry, electron microscopy, X-Ray diffraction

Microbiology, Soil Science

Ansys CFX, FEMLAB, SIMSCI Pro II, Aspen Plus, Origin, AutoCAD, Inventor, C++, Visual Basic, Maple, MS-Office

German (native), English and Spanish (both fluently)