Distinctions

• Marie-Skłodowska Curie Fellowship from the European Commission (start Dec'24)
• Exchange Program from the Challenge Institute for Quantum Computing (NSF)
• Leadership Academy Fellowship from the German Scholars Organization (GSO*)
• Walter Benjamin Fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
• Next Step Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
• Fellow of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)
• DAAD Conference Grant 
• DAAD / PROMOS Scholarship (Student Exchange Programme)

Teaching Experience

2024  --  Guest Lecturer, Physics for Scientists and Engineers, UC Berkeley

• Independently designed and taught two lectures on magnetism for 50 students
• Collaborated with the main lecturer on course objectives

2015/16 -- Teaching assistant, Mathematical Methods and Electrodynamics, TU Berlin

• Led discussion sessions and provided additional instruction to 40 students
• Graded assignments and exams, offering detailed feedback

Outside of Physics

Besides physics I am interested in all kind of things: I regularly go to the gym and in the summer I play beach volleyball. In the past, I have been part of a theater & musical group and a music band.  During my PhD I returned to playing the keyboard in a hobby band in Berlin and taking singing lessons again after a few years break. For many years I have also been part of an LGBTQ youth group. More recently I am very interested the vogueing and ballroom scene, especially in Berlin, Tokyo and San Francisco.