About

Curriculum vitae

Assistant professor at the Department of Systems Design Engineering at University of Waterloo since 09/2022

Junior Leader funded by the La Caixa foundation at the Smart Nano-bio-devices group at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Barcelona, 10/2021-07/2022, hosted by Prof. Samuel Sanchez

Feodor Lynen Fellow funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation hosted by the Smart Nano-bio-devices group, IBEC, Barcelona, Spain, 05/2020-09/2021

Open Topic Postdoc,  TU Dresden, at the Chair of Applied Zoology, 11/2017-04/2020

Postdoc at Institute for Integrative Nanosciences, IFW Dresden 11/2016-10/2017

PhD at Institute for Integrative Nanosciences, IFW Dresden 04/2012-10/2016

Self-employed as Technical Writer & Translator, Lloydminster, Canada 2010-2012

Diplom-Studies in Biotechnology at TU Braunschweig, 2004-2010

ISAP/DAAD Exchange Student at University of Waterloo, Canada, 2007-2008

See my publication list here.

Awards

Tschirnhaus Medal for outstanding PhD Thesis 

IFW Year Reception 2017

Award for Innovative Research on Sperm-flagella driven Micro-Bio-Robots

Reproduction World Congress 2014, Paris, May 23, 2014

Best Scientific Video Award sponsored by Vision Research

International Workshop on Micro- and Nanomotors: Challenges and Perspectives, Dresden, Germany, 10.-12.09.2012

 Nanoscale Poster Prize sponsored by RSC Publishing

International Workshop on Micro- and Nanomotors: Challenges and Perspectives, Dresden, Germany, 10.-12.09.2012

Invited Talks

ArtMoMa International Workship on Bionanotechnology & Biomolecular Machines, Dresden, 02.11.2021, “Biohybrid microrobots: how we put cells to work“

IVF Initiative Webinar Series, Session 36: In Silico Fertilization, 06.10.2020, “Sperm-Driven and Sperm-Templated Microrobots”

Centre for Nanoscience and Engineering, IISC, Bangalore, 24.02.2020, “Autonomously moving artificial and biohybrid microswimmers”

University of Twente, Soft Matter Seminar, 06.02.2020, “From autonomously moving microsystems to sperm analysis”

TU Munich, Seminar, 25.10.2019, “Integration of sperm cells for biohybrid microrobotic applications”

DAMTP Biolunch Cambridge, 14.12.2018

Applied Mathematics Seminar, U Birmingham, 13.12.2018

Nanobiomed Conference 2018, Barcelona, November 20-22, 2018