Curriculum Vitae

  • Jan 2014 - current
    Principal Investigator in the bilateral Japanese-German project "Inhomogeneity of the SCN", Charite / HU Berlin
  • Oct 2010 - Dec 2013
    Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Theoretical Biology , Humboldt University
  • Dec 2007 - Sep 2010
    Postdoctoral Researcher in Research Group Statistical Physics / Theory of Chaos, University of Potsdam
  • Feb 2007 - Dec 2007
    Research Associate at Computer Science Department, University of Liverpool
  • Oct 2006
    PhD (Dr. rer. nat. with Summa cum laude/mit Auszeichnung)
    Thesis Topic: Dynamics and Stability of Pulses and Pulse Trains in Excitable Media, Advisor Prof Dr Harald Engel
  • Apr 2002 - Feb 2007
    Technical University Berlin, Research fellow in "Dissipative Structures" Group
    Teaching Assistant in Theoretical Physics problem classes
    Co-supervision of two diploma theses:
    • Georg Röder (now at the Max-Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems)
    • Nils Fischer (now at the Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology)
  • Dec 2006 - Jan 2007
    visitor in Research Group of Natalia Janson at Loughborough University
  • Sep 2000 - Mar 2002
    Max-Planck-Stipendium Fellow
  • Sep 1995 - Jun 2000
    Saratov State University, Saratov, Russia
    University Diploma in June 2000. Thesis Topic: Synchronization of Human Cardiorhythm by Weak External Forcing
    Thesis Advisor Prof Dr Vadim S Anishenko