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curriculum vitae employment 07 - present Professor of Physics, University of Zurich 06 - 07 Lichtenberg Professor for Astroparticle Physics (W3), RWTH-Aachen 03-06 Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville 00-03 Postdoctoral Fellow, Physics Department, Stanford University 99-00 Research Associate in Non-Accelerator Particle Physics, MPIK, Heidelberg 97-99 Research Assistant, MPIK, Heidelberg education 1999 Ph.D. in Physics: experimental particle astrophysics, University of Heidelberg 1997 Diplom in Physics, non-accelerator particle physics, University of Heidelberg 1996 Language certificate: Italian, French, Language Center, University of Heidelberg 1993 Vordiplom in Physics, University of Heidelberg 1991 Abitur, Geschwister-Scholl Gymnasium, Mannheim 1988 Bacalaureat, Lyceum for Mathematics and Physics, Timisoara main fellowships and awards ERC Advanced Grant, 2017 APS Fellow, 2015 Canada Excellence Research Chair, 2013 (declined) Lichtenberg Professorship by the VW-Foundation, 2006 NSF Career Award, 2005 Fellowship of the Heidelberg Graduiertenkolleg "Experimental methods in nuclear and particle physics", 1997-1999 selected committees, advisory and editorial boards Editor in chief, EJP-C; editorial board JoP G CERN Scientific Policy Committee DARWIN project coordinator XENON collaboration board chair XENON deputy spokesperson (until August 2017) UZH Research Commission KCETA advisory board APPEC scientific advisory committee TUM Excellence Cluster SAC XENON, GERDA, DARWIN executive boards UZH Graduate Campus Board Committee for the Caroline von Humboldt Prize and Professorship (2015) for a detailed version of my cv please contact me via email.