Professional and Educational Path
January 2024 – Honorary professor at the department of materials engineering, Technical University of Munich, Germany
June 2020 – Head of the materials engineering department and member of the directorate at the Federal Institute of Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin, Germany
April 2015 – Assistant professor and adjunct professor at the department of materials science and engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
2013/2015 – Junior researcher group leader at the institute for materials physics, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany
2012/2013 – Practice specialist (management consultant) for metals at McKinsey and Company, Düsseldorf, Germany
2011/2012 – Alexander von Humboldt scholar at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
2009/2011 – Postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zürich, Switzerland
2005/2009 – PhD at the EPFL Lausanne and the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
2000/2005 – Triple diploma in materials science and engineering at the Technical University in Luleå, Sweden, INPL/EEIGM in Nancy, France, and the Saarland University, Germany
Selected Academic Honors
2023 – Finalist Medal, American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI)
2019 – Masing Memorial Medal, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde (German Materials Society, DGM)
2019 – Emerging Leaders Alliance Award, The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS)
2019 – American Society for Non-Destructive Testing (ASNT) Fellowship Award
2017 – National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award
2017 – Structural Materials Division Young Leaders Professional Development Award, The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS)
2014 – Emmy Noether award by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2010 – Feodor von Lynen fellowship granted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH)
2009 – Young Investigator award of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde (German Materials Society, DGM)