08/2012-present Lead-PI of the Magnetic
Materials Program at the Materials
Science Division at the E.O. Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory
08/2004-present
Staff scientist in the Materials
Science Division at the E.O. Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory, Beamline Scientist in charge of the soft
X-ray microscopy beamline 6.1.2 at
the Advanced Light Source
2009
Visiting professor at the Laboratoire de Physique des Materiaux
at the University of Nancy/France
10/2001-08/2004
Staff scientist, Max-Planck-Institute for
Metals Research, Stuttgart, Germany and Assistant Professor (“Privatdozent”) (C2 level) for Experimental Physics at the University of
Stuttgart, Germany
11/1999-08/2004
several extended stays at the CXRO/LBNL,
Berkeley CA
01/2000
Habilitation thesis at the University of
Würzburg, Germany: “Studies of magnetism in the
nanometer range with X-ray magnetic circular dichroism”(in
German)
03/2000-10/2001
Assistant Professor (“Privatdozent”)
(C2 level) for Experimental Physics at the University of Würzburg,
Germany
02/1998-02/2000
scientific assistant (C1 level) at the University
of Würzburg, Germany
04/1994-02/1998
scientific assistant (C1 level) at the University of Augsburg, Germany
05/1993-03/1994
Post-doc at the Institute for Physics at the University of Augsburg, Germany
07/1993
PhD degree at the Technical
University of Munich, Germany (supervisor Prof. Dr. Paul Kienle) Thesis: “ X-ray magnetic
circular dichroism at the L2,3 edges of 4f-elements” (in German)
03/1989-04/1993
PhD student at the Technical
University of Munich in the group of Gisela Schütz
1989-present
numerous experiments at international synchrotron laboratories (HASYLAB/Hamburg, BESSY/Berlin, LURE/Paris, ESRF/Grenoble,
SLS/Villigen, NSLS/Brookhaven,
ALS/Berkeley)
01/1989-02/1989
Scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute
(Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) for Physics in Munich,
Germany
01/1989
Master thesis at the Technical
University of Munich and the Max-Planck-Institute
(Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) for Physics in
Munich, Germany (supervisor Prof. Dr. Gerd Buschhorn):
“Studies of the Bremsstrahlung of Electrons under
Channeling-Conditions” (in German)
10/1985-04/1986
Study of physics at the University of Vienna,
Austria
10/1981-01/1989
Study of physics at the Technical
University of Munich, Germany
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born 1960 in Munich, Germany
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married to Dr.med. Petra Fischer, née Schmalz
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son Johannes Karl, born 1996
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daughter Clara Sophie, born 2002