Curriculum vitae

Work Experience

German space agency / Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft und Raumfahrt (DLR)

02/2018 - 01/2021

Assistant Researcher (Postdoc), Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS), France.
Position included: CDS Specfind tool, writing publications and proposals, dealing with radio-astronomical data, organizing the weekly seminar, team member of European H2020 project AENEAS, team member of international projects CHANG-ES and LOFAR, planning and conducting own international projects.

07/2011 - 01/2018

Assistant Researcher, Astronomical Institute of the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.
Position included: team member of the international CHANG-ES project and DFG project dealing with cosmic magnetism, writing publications and proposals, dealing with radio-astronomical data, organization of conferences and lecture tutorials, giving lecture tutorials, supervision of students.

06/2008 - 03/2011

Education

03/2012 - 12/2017

PhD in Physics (final grade 1.0, German system), Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Astronomical Institute of the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.
Specialized in radio astronomy

PhD Thesis

„Magnetic Fields and Cosmic Ray Transport in Edge-On Spiral Galaxies from the CHANG-ES Sample“, supervisor: R.-J. Dettmar.

10/2008 - 03/2011

Master thesis

„Optical Long-slit Spectroscopy of Extraplanar HII Regions in Edge-on Spiral Galaxies“, supervisor: R.-J. Dettmar.

10/2005 - 10/2008

Bachelor thesis