Education:

1979 - 1982    Undergraduate studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität.

1982 - 1886    Undergraduate studies at the Universität Hamburg.

1986              Diploma in Physics at the Universität Hamburg in the group of Prof. G. Huber.

1987 -1991     Graduate studies at the Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik in Garching in the group of Nobel Laureate Prof. T. W. Hänsch.

1991               Ph.D. at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich.

1995               Habilitation at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich.                    

Affiliations:

1987 - 1993     Graduate stipend at Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik in Garching.

1993 - 1998     Post-doctoral researcher at the Ludwig-Maximilians- Universität.

since 1998       Full professor at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen.

Cold Atoms in Optical Ring Resonators (in Collaboration with Prof. Sebastian Slama)
Ultra cold atoms interact with the light stored in an optical ring resonator. Cavity mediated long range interaction between the atoms are used to tailor nonlinear many-body quantum systems. Current topics are the Dicke phase transition, subradiance and supersolid behavior.

Heteronuclear Mixtures of Cold Atoms
We explore strongly correllated mixtures of rubidium and lithium atoms. By means of photoassociative ionization, density correlation properties are observed in situ with fast temporal resolution and single atom sensitivity. Currrently we focus on hetronuclear Efimov type few body physics.