| Date of birth: 03/17/1977 | |
| Place of birth: Bochum | |
| Marital status: Married one child | |
| Nationality: German | |
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| Scientific vita | |
| Oct. 1996 - March 1999: Basic studies in mechanical engineering (Ruhr-Universiät Bochum) | |
| March 1999 - Oct. 2002: Main studies in physics engineering (TU Berlin) | |
| Oct. 2002: Diploma in physics engineering (TU Berlin) | |
| Oct. 2002 - Apr. 2006: PhD-student in the group of Fredi Troeltzsch (within the research center MATHEON at TU Berlin) | |
| July 2006: PhD in Mathematics (TU Berlin) | |
| Apr. 2006 - Feb. 2009: Postdoc at Weistrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS) in the research group Nonlinear Optimization and Inverse Problems | |
| March 2009 - Sept. 2010: Juniorprofessor at the Graduate School CE (TU Darmstadt) | |
| Sept. 2010 - March 2011: Professor at Faculty for Mathematics (TU Darmstadt) | |
| Since April 2011: Professor at Faculty for Mathematics (TU Dortmund) | |