Key activities

• Graphene: electrical investigation of epitaxial graphene
• Molecular electronics: electrical current through a single molecule
• Semiconductors for high-power applications: silicon carbide

Curriculum vitae

• 2015-2017: Head of the departments of physics
• 2012: Vice-speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre “Synthetic Carbon Allotropes”
• 2008: Principal investigator of the Cluster of Excellence “Engineering of Advanced Materials”
• 2007: Director of the “Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials”
• since 12/2004: Professor and head of the Chair of Applied Physics, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
• 2004: Visiting scientist at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Rüschlikon (Switzerland)
• 1999-2004: Group leader at the Institute of Nanotechnology, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
• 1995-1999: PhD studies at the University of Karlsruhe (supervisor: Prof. Dr. H. v. Löhneysen)
• 1989-1995: Studies of physics in Karlsruhe and Grenoble (France)

“Rufe” / Awards / Fellowships

• 2014: Offer of a W3 professorship of Solid State Physics, TU Dresden (declined)
• 2004: Erwin-Schrödinger-Award together with F. Hennrich, R. Krupke, M. Mayor
• 2004: Offer of a C4 professorship of Applied Physics, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
• 2004: Offer of a C3 professorship of Experimental Physics, RWTH Aachen (declined)
• 2001: “Exzellenter wissenschaftlich-technischer Nachwuchs” at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
• 1992-1995: Fellowship of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation
• 1992-1993: Fellowship of the “Deutsch-Französisches Hochschulkolleg”

Honorary position

• “Vertrauensdozent der Studienförderung” of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation