Short CV

since 2020: Founding member and (deputy) director of the Research Station Geometry and Dynamics
since 2017: Professor at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
2011 – 2017: Professor at Universität Münster
2011 – 2012: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Spring 2010: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
2008 – 2011: Assistant Professor at Purdue University
2008 – 2009: Heinz Hopf Lecturer at ETH Zürich
2007 – 2008: Courant Instructor at the Courant Institute, New York University (DFG)
2005 – 2007: Postdoc at the Courant Institute, NYU as fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2001 – 2005: Ph.D. student at the University of Leipzig; advisor: Prof. Matthias Schwarz
2002: Diploma in physics at the University of Osnabrück
2000 – 2001: Part III at the University of Cambridge, UK
2000: Diploma in mathematics at the University of Osnabrück

Grants and Fellowships

2021 – 2022: Host for Jungsoo Kang – Humboldt Research Fellow
2020: Oberwolfach Research Fellowship (jointly with Hansjörg Geiges and Kai Zehmisch)
2019 – 2024: Exploratory Projects in the Cluster of Excellence STRUCTURES
Summer 2019: Host for Sergei Tabachnikov – guest professor at Heidelberg University
2018 – 2025: Member of RTG 2229 – Asymptotic Invariants and Limits of Groups and Spaces
Summer 2018: Host for Misha Gekhtman – guest professor at Heidelberg University
Summer 2018: Focus Semester Symplectic Dynamics at Heidelberg University
2017 – 2025: SFB/TRR 191 – Symplectic Structures in Geometry, Algebra and Dynamics
2015 – 2018: German-Israeli Foundation (GIF) grant
2012 – 2018: Project B8 in SFB 878 – Groups, Geometry and Actions
2012 – 2013: Host for Urs Frauenfelder – Humboldt Research Fellow
2011 – 2012: von Neumann fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
2008 – 2013: NSF grant
2007 – 2009: DFG grant (jointly with Urs Frauenfelder)
2005 – 2007: DFG fellowship (Forschungsstipendium)