CV

Curriculum Vitae

Academic positions

• since 04/2011:  Professor of Mathematics (W2),
  Department of Mathematics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
• 04/2009 – 04/2009:  Emmy Noether Junior Research Group,
  Department of Mathematics, Hamburg University,

• 10/2008 – 03/2009: Marie Curie Intra European Research Fellow,
  School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Nottingham
• 10/2004 – 09/2008: Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
  Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada

Education

• 01/2002 – 09/2004  PhD in Mathematical Physics,
  Department of Mathematics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
• 10/96 – 11/01 Bachelor and Master of Physics,
  Department of Physics, Freiburg University
• 11/99 – 05/00 ERASMUS student
  Université Paris Sud, Orsay
• 06/96  Abitur,  Kurfürst-Friedrich Gymnasium, Heidelberg

Projects, Prizes and Fellowships

• Simons Emmy Noether vising fellowship 2019
  Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
• 01/17 – 12/19 Investigator in project MTM2016-79639-P
  Agencia Española de Investigación
• 11/2016 Preis für gute Lehre
  Bavarian Ministry of Education, Science and Arts
• 10/2016 Teaching Prize 2016,
  Mathematics and Physics Student Union (FSI),
  University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
• 05/15 – 04/19  German vice representative of the COST network
  MP1405 Quantum structure of spacetime (QSPACE)
• 01/14 – 12/16 Investigator in project MTM2013-43820-P
  Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
• 01/12 – 03/15 Emerging Fields Project Quantum Geometry
  (with Profs Giesel, Mecke, Neeb, Sahlmann, Thiemann)
• 01/11 – 09/14 Investigator in project MTM2010-18556
  Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
• 07/10 – 03/11 Principal investigator
  Research Training Group GRK 1670, Hamburg University
• 04/09 – 12/16 Emmy Noether Fellowship,
  German Research Foundation
• 10/08 – 03/09 Marie Curie Intra-European Research Fellowship
• 01/02 – 06/04 PhD-grant,
  German Academic Scholarship Foundation
• 10/02 Gustav Mie-Preis 2002,
  Prize for the best physics diploma thesis,
  Freiburg University
• 04/97 – 10/01 Undergraduate scholarship,
  German Academic Scholarship Foundation
• 06/96  Abiturpreis,
  Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Education

Teaching

• see my Teaching Page

Supervision of PhD and Master students

• see my Supervision Page

Editorial Boards

• since 03/2024 Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry
• since 02/2022 Analysis and Mathematical Physics
• since 01/2022 Section editor,  2023 edition of the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics

Service for the Community

• since 05/2016 Academic Mentor
  German Academic Scholarship Foundation
• 05/15 – 04/19 German vice representative
  COST network MP1405 Quantum structure of spacetime (QSPACE)
• since 04/2014 Member of various selection committees,
  German Academic Scholarship Foundation
• since 2011 Referee for various funding bodies
• since 2006 Referee for various academic journals

Organisation of Workshops and Conferences

• 06-07 2025  Twinned workshop
  Quantum Field Theory and Topological Phases via Homotopy Theory and Operator Algebras,
  CMSA Harvard + MIPM Bonn
  (with D. Freed,  D. Gaitsgory, O. Gwilliam, A. Kapustin)
• 06/2024 Lie Groups, Representation Theory and Physics, FAU,
  (with H. Glöckner and A. Knauf)
• since 08/2020 Higher structures and Field Theory Seminar, Online Seminar,
  (with N. Carqueville, G. Schaumann, C. Scheimbauer)
• 01/2019 Organising committee,
  Programme Emergent Geometries from Strings and Quantum Fields
  The Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics,  Florence
• 04/2018 Organising committee,
  Bayrischzell Workshop 2018
  COST network QSPACE, Bayrischzell, Germany
• 08/2016 Organising Committee,
  Quantum Structure of Spacetime and Gravity,
  COST network QSPACE, Belgrade
• 07/2016 Parallel Session Symmetries in classical and quantum gravity,
  Classical and quantum symmetries in mathematics and physics,
  University of Jena, Germany
• 09/2014 Third Erlangen Fall School on Quantum Geometry,
  University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
  (with K.-H. Neeb, C. Scarinci)
• 03/2014 Structures on Tensor Categories and Topological Field Theories,
  University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
  (with C. Schweigert)
• 10/2013 Second Erlangen Fall School on Quantum Geometry,
  University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
  (with K. Giesel, K. Mecke, K.-H. Neeb, H. Sahlmann, T. Thiemann)
• 10/2012 First Erlangen Fall School on Quantum Geometry,
  University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
  (with K. Giesel, K. Mecke, K.-H. Neeb, H. Sahlmann, T. Thiemann, S. Waldmann)

• 09/2012 From Poisson to String Geometry,
  University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
  (with T. Nikolaus, U. Penning, C. Schweigert, C. Wockel)
• 08/2012 Organising Committee,
  New perspectives in topological field theories,
  Hamburg University
• 07/2012 Parallel Session Geometry and Topology in (Quantum) Gravity,
  Conference QQQ: 3 Quantum: Algebra, Geometry and Information
  Talinn, Estonia
• 10/2011 Workshop on Representation Theoretical and Categorical Structures in Quantum Geometry and Conformal Field Theory
  University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
  (with C. Schweigert)

Invited Talks at Workshops and Conferences

• see my Conference Talk Page

Invited Seminar Talks and Research Visits

• see my Seminar Talk Page