Main Research Fields
Experimental soft matter physics, in particular strongly interacting colloidal systems investigated by optical microscopy and light scattering. Equilibrium properties of colloidal crystals (phase behaviour, elasticity, diffusion, conductivity), non-equilibrium properties (behaviour in confinement and under shear), phase transition kinetics
Scientific Career
Since 1996 | Professor (C3), JGU Mainz |
1994 - 1996 | Temporary Professorship, JGU Mainz |
1994 | Habilitation, University of Konstanz |
1993 - 1996 | Physics Dept. University of Konstanz, scientific assistant |
1989 - 1993 | Physics Dept. University of Konstanz, postdoctoral fellow |
1977 - 1988 | Study of “Chemistry” at the Universitiy of Dortmund, the Georg August University of Göttingen and the RWTH Aachen (Diploma 1983, post diploma studies in Australia 1983/84, Ph.D. 1989) |
Scholarships, Awards and Honors
Since 2010 | Vice chair of the International Advisory Board to the ELOPTO (Colloidal and Molecular Electro-Optics) |
Since 2002 | Local coordinator of the CRC TR6 “Physics of colloidal Dispersions in External Fields” |
Since 1997 | Fulbright Vertrauensdozent, JGU Mainz |