Career to Date: 2003-present Senior scientist in the Department of Numerical Simulation at the fraunhofer Ernst-Mach Institute (EMI) Managing project leader of the project "MMM-Tools", (Multiscale Materials Modeling) in cooperation of 9 different Fraunhofer-Institutes in Germany (www.mmm-tools.de) Advisor of Diploma and PhD students in Physics and Mathematics 2002-2003 Senior Computational Geneticist in the Department of Genetic Epidemiology at Lion Bioscience AG, Heidelberg, Germany 2001-2002 Manager at SAP Headquarters, Walldorf, Germany 2001 PhD in Physics 1998-2001 PhD Student of Prof. Kurt Kremer at the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany Assistant teacher at the Univ. of Mainz, Germany 1998 Graduation in Physics with Honors at the University of Ulm, Germany 1997-1998 Diploma Student in the Department of Theoretical Physics at the University of Ulm, Germany 1995-1996 Graduate Exchange Student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA, U.S.A. 1993-1995 Assistant Teacher at the University of Ulm, Germany 1993 German "Vordiplom" in physics with honors 1991 Studies in physics