Projects, Fellowships and Prizes
- 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 - 01/15-01/16 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 (Spain) - 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(Spain) - 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
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
Organisation of Workshops and Conferences
- 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, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg,
(with H. Glöckner and A. Knauf) - 07/2023 Emergent Geometries from Strings and Quantum Fields, Florence,
(with P. Aschieri, F. Bonechi, A. Cattaneo, R. Donagi, P. Grassi, R. Szabo) - 06/2022 Mini Workshop Erlangen-Wien-Würzburg
(with N. Carqueville, G. Schaumann) - 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,
(postponed due to Covid19, to be held in 2023) - 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)