Curriculum Vitae

Work:
09/2012 - present Humboldt-Gymnasium Vaterstetten
Teacher for Mathematics & Physics
10/2016 - 04/2017 Project "Classroom under Sails"
Teacher for Mathematics & Physics for 10th grade students aboard the sailing ship "Thor Heyerdahl"
Education:
09/2010 - 08/2012 Maria-Theresia-Gymnasium Munich
Teacher traineeship for secondary school (Mathematics & Physics)
01/2007 - 08/2010 Institute for atmospheric physics, German center for aerospace (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen
research activity: Construction and deployment of a perfluorocarbon tracer measuring system for aircraft experiments (Prof. Ulrich Schumann)
10/2006 - 12/2006 Five weeks intensive Spanish course in Costa Rica (Instituto de Español, San José) followed by a trip through Central and South America
08/2003 - 07/2004 1 year Fulbright scholarship abroad
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA: Physics

Courses: Quantum Information Processing / Plasma Physics / Geophysics Field Trip / Biological Physics / String Theory
Research work at MIT Bates Accelerator Lab
10/1999 - 07/2006 Technical University Munich (TUM): General Physics
Diploma thesis: "Room Temperature Ferromagnetism in Cobalt-doped Zinc Oxide" at the Walther-Meissner-Institute for Low Temperature Physics, Garching (Prof. Rudolf Gross)
Special courses: Particle Detectors / Magnetism & Spintronic / Medical Radiation Physics
Seminar presentations: Quantum Information Processing / Energy, Climate, Environment
09/1989 - 06/1998 Secondary school: Gymnasium Grafing (Abitur core subjects: Maths / Physics)
Bavarian scholarship for highly gifted students (BayBFG)
Work experience during education:
06/2008 - 07/2008 Aircraft measurement campaign POLARCAT-GRACE in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland
Operation of Perfluorcarbon tracer measurement system during 7 flights
09/2003 - 05/2004 Student trainee at MIT Bates Accelerator Lab
Calibration and programming of neutron detector system
02/2003 - 04/2003 Student trainee at EADS Ottobrunn, division LG-SC (surface & chemical engineering)
Development of a method for measuring the thermal conductivity of unknown materials
11/2002 - 02/2003 Student trainee at TUM chair E12 (nuclear physics)
Programming a multi-channel ADC for particle detector readout
02/2001 - 03/2001 Student trainee at EPCOS Munich, division SAW (Surface Acoustic Waves)
Testing and analysing SAW components
07/1998 - 07/1999 Civilian service at GSF, Institute for Soil Ecology, Neuherberg / Munich
Taking and analysing soil samples; laboratory work; data processing
Language skills:
German (native speaker)
English (fluent)
Spanish (good working knowledge)
Computer skills:
Operating systems: MS-DOS, Windows 95 - 10, Linux & Unix
Applications: MS Office, LaTeX, Origin, Igor
Programming exp.: HTML, PHP, JavaScript, Python, mySQL, Maple, BASIC, Pascal, IDL, C
Social commitment and personal interests:
Honorary functions (webmaster, music archive) in brass ensemble "Holy Ghost Brass" Ebersberg
Singer in pop-rock choir "El ChorAzón" Haar
Computer hard- & software (emergency computer help for family & friends)
Contemporary English literature; American movies and TV series
Sports: Scuba diving, dancing, swimming, hiking
Traveling