Curriculum Vitae
| Since 2025 | Head of PSI Center for Neutron and Muon Sciences, Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland |
| Since 2021 | Associate Professor ad personam, Department of Physics, University of Zurich |
| 2020 - 2025 | Deputy Head of PSI Center for Neutron and Muon Sciences, Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland |
| 2018 - 2025 | Head of the Laboratory for Neutron and Muon Instrumentation (LIN), PSI, Switzerland. |
| 2016 - 2020 | Co-leader (with Prof. Christian Pfleiderer) of the focus group Quantum Matter(link is external) at the Institute for Advanced Study at Technische Universität München (TUM-IAS) as a Hans-Fischer fellow(link is external). |
| 2011-2018 | Staff Scientist at Condensed Matter & Magnet Science (MPA-CMMS), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA (Capability Leader for Neutron Scattering). |
| 2009-2011 | Feodor-Lynen Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Diego, Prof. M. Brian Maple's group.(link is external) |
| 2009-2011 | Postdoc Universität zu Köln, Prof. Markus Braden's group(link is external), design of the new polarized tree-axis spectrometer KOMPASS(link is external) for the FRM II reactor at the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum(link is external). |
| 2005-2008 | Research Assistant at Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen-PSI, Switzerland and Prof. Böni’s group(link is external) at Technische Universität München, Germany. |
| 2003-2004 | Undergraduate Research Assistant at Institute Laue Langevin, Grenoble, France. |
Awards
| 2024 | PSI Diversity Award |
| 2016 | Fellow’s Prize for Outstanding Research, Los Alamos National Laboratory. |
| 2016 | Hans Fischer Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, TU München. |
| 2016 | LANL award for outstanding contributions to the Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program. |
| 2015 | Small Team Distinguished Performance Award, Los Alamos National Laboratory. |
| 2014 | Wolfram-Prandl Prize, German Committee for Research with Neutrons (KFN). |
| 2011 | Early-Career Award, Los Alamos National Laboratory. |
| 2009 | Feodor Lynen Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. |