Research Interests

• Slow and anomalous transport in heterogeneous media
• Entangled Dynamics of Stiff Biopolymers
• Driven one-dimensional transport, molecular motors and spintronics
• Molecular self-assembly, ordering phenomena in two-dimensional systems
• Hydrodynamics on Micro- and Nanoscales, Microfluidics
• Brownian Motion at short time scales in confinement in complex fluids

Further Interests

• Mode-coupling theory of the glass transition
• Light scattering in supercooled liquids
• Constitutive equations in complex fluids

Curriculum Vitae

Education

• since 07/2007: Privatdozent LMU
• 2005: Habilitation in Theoretical Physics, FU Berlin
• 1996: Doctoral degree in Physics, TU München
• 1993: Diploma in Physics, TU München

Academic Career

• since 07/2006: senior researcher at the Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, LMU München
• 2008: Visiting Professor at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
• 2006: Visiting Professor at the Universität Bayreuth
• 2005-2006: Visiting Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
• 2004-2005: Visiting Professor at the Universität Konstanz
• 2001-2004: Research Fellow at the Theoretical Physics Department at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut in Berlin
• 2000-2001: Research Fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, TU München
• 1998-2000: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University
• 1996-1998: Research Fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, TU München
• 1993-1996: Research Assistant at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, TU München

Recent Teaching Experience

• Lecture: Nonlinear Dynamics and Complex Systems, Universität Mainz, summer term 2008
• Lecture: Mathematical Methods for Theoretical Physics, LMU München, winter term 2007
• Tutorials for Theoretical Physics TII: Electrodynamics, LMU München, summer term 2007
• Tutorials for Theoretical Physics TVI: Soft Matter and Biological Physics, LMU München, winter term 2006
• Lecture: Statistical Physics, Universität Bayreuth, summer term 2006

Conferences

• The Physics of Cells: From the Edge to the Heart, Primošten, Croatia, 2009

Selected Publications

Effective Perrin theory for the anisotropic diffusion of a strongly hindered rod

Cluster-resolved dynamic scaling theory and universal corrections for transport on percolating systems

Enhanced Diffusion of a Needle in a Planar Array of Point Obstacles

Anisotropic Memory Effects in Confined Colloidal Diffusion

Microscale Fluid Flow Induced by Thermoviscous Expansion Along a Traveling Wave

Crossover in the Slow Decay of Dynamic Correlations in the Lorentz Model

Exclusion Processes with Internal States

Localization Transition of the 3D Lorentz Model and Continuum Percolation

Melting of colloidal molecular crystals on triangular lattices

Phase Coexistence in Driven One Dimensional Transport