Curriculum vitae
since 2021: Co-director of the Digital Society Initiative, University of Zurich
since 2018: Associate Professor at the Department of Physics at the University of Zürich, Switzerland
2016 - 2018: Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics at the University of Zürich, Switzerland
2013 - 2016: Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University, USA
2010 - 2013: PhD studies at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
supervised by Prof. Dr. Manfred Sigrist, ETH Zürich, and Dr. Christopher Mudry, Paul Scherrer Institut Villigen
PhD Thesis “Electron Fractionalization in two-dimensional quantum systems: Majorana Fermions and fractional topological insulators”
Awards: Dissertation Prize of the Swiss Physical Society, ETH medal
2009 - 2010: Visting scientist at the Condensed Matter Theory Laboratory, RIKEN, Saitama, Japan
2007 - 2009: Master study of physics: University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
Master thesis “Coexistence of superconductivity and ferromagnetism in noncentrosymmetric materials“
supervised by Prof. Dr. Manfred Sigrist, ETH Zürich,
Degree: Master of Science in Physics; mark: excellent
2005 - 2007: Study of physics at Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
Memberships, Committees, Boards
Member of the Digital Strategy Board of the University of Zurich
Advisory board member of Graduate Campus of the University of Zurich
Advisory board member of Science Lab UZH and Science Pavillion UZH (University of Zurich)
Board member of the Pauli Center (University of Zurich and ETH Zurich)
Member of the American Physical Society
Member of the Editorial Board of Physical Review B (2020-2026)
Member of the MaNEP Switzerland network
Awards
PhD Award in General Physics of the Swiss Physical Society (2013)
ETH Medal of distinction for PhD thesis (2013)
Klung-Wilhelmy Science Award (2019)
Outstanding Referee of the American Physical Society (2019)
Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)