Scientific
Objective: |
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Description
of the electronic, magnetic, and structural properties of complex
materials using LDA bandstructure calculations and model Hamiltonians
derived from them |
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Education: |
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1995 |
Diploma
Thesis: "Dynamische Spinsuszeptibilitaet im tJ-Modell" at the University
of Technology Dresden and in the Max-Planck Working Group "Correlated
Electron Systems" |
1999 |
Ph.
D. in Physics:
"Electronic Structure and Exchange Integrals of low-dimensional Cuprates"
at the University of Technology Dresden, the Institute for Solid State
and Material Research Dresden and the Max-Planck Working Group "Correlated
Electron Systems"
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Scientific
work: |
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May
1995 - Oct. 1999 |
Ph.
D Student at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, University
of Technology Dresden, at the Institute for Solid State and Material
Research Dresden and in the Max-Planck Working Group "Correlated
Electron Systems" |
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Electronic and magnetic structure of low-dimensional strongly
correlated systems
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Description of electron spectroscopy (XAS, ARPES, EELS) of low
dimensional strongly correlated systems
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Electronic structure and superconductivity in Rare Earth Transition
Metal Borocarbides
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Oct.
1999 - Apr. 2000 |
Postdoctoral
Researcher, Institute for Solid State and Material Research Dresden: |
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Electronic structure and superconductivity in Rare Earth Transition
Metal Borocarbides
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May
2000 - Oct. 2002 |
Postdoctoral
Researcher, Department of Physics, University of California Davis: |
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Electron correlation effects in low-dimensional
magnetic materials (cuprates, cobaltates, vanadates)
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LDA+U method within the Full Potential Minimum Basis non-orthogonal
Local Orbital (FPLO) scheme for strongly correlated magnetic materials
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Electronic structure of Rare Earth Transition Metal Borocarbides
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Electronic properties of MgB2 and related compounds
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Oct. 2002 - Dec. 2003 |
Postdoctoral
Researcher, Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden: |
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Electron correlation effects in low-dimensional magnetic materials, especially metalates
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Electronic properties and superconductivity in MgB2,
LiBC and related compounds
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Electronic and magnetic properties of antiperovskites (MgCNi3,
GaCMn3, CuNMn3)
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Description of chemical bonding in intermetallic compounds
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Since 2004 |
Head of an "Emmy-Noether Group" at the Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden |
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New magnetic materials with half-metallic properties
(Na(K)Fe4Sb12, Co3Sn2S2)
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Electron correlation effects spin- and orbital order in low-dimensional magnets
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Electronically driven phase transitions under high pressure
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Influence of substitutional disorder on structural,
magnetic and superconducting properties (using Coherent
Potential Approximation (CPA) within the FPLO codes)
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Description of chemical bonding in intermetallic compounds
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Interplay of electronic structure, magnetism and
superconductivity in complex metals
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Microscopic description of spin- and orbital
fluctuations
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Theoretical description of spectroscopic experiments
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Awards
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2000-2002 |
Postdoctoral
Fellowship of the "Deutscher
Akademischer Austauschdienst" (DAAD) |
1995 |
Lohrman
Medal of the University of Technology Dresden for outstanding study
performance |
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