Education

2009-2012	PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Physics, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) and Technical University Braunschweig (TUB)
2003-2007	MSc (Diplom) in Physics, University of Bonn

Fellowships and Awards

since 2019	Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
2018	MSSL Team Achievement Award for the successful delivery of the Solar Orbiter Solar Wind Analyser
2017-2022	Ernest Rutherford Fellowship from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
2011	Award for the best talk by an early-career author at the 71st Annual Meeting of the German Geophysical Society (DGG)
2009-2012	Fellowship and full stipend from the Max Planck Society (MPG)
2003	Book and membership award from the German Physical Society (DPG)
2001-2003	Admission to the FFF project at the University of Bonn

Research Experience

since 2019	Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Space Plasma Physics at the UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory
since 2017	STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow at the UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory
2017-2021	Affiliate Assistant Professor at the University of New Hampshire
2017	Research Assistant Professor at the University of New Hampshire
2012-2017	Research Scientist at the University of New Hampshire
2007-2009	Research Assistant at the University of Bonn

Teaching Experience

since 2020	Module lead for the Lecture "Space Plasma and Magnetospheric Physics" at UCL
since 2018	Group Project "MSc in Space Science and Engineering" at UCL
2019-2020	Lecture "Planetary Atmospheres" at UCL
since 2018	Organisation of annual training weeks for PhD students of the London NERC DTP
since 2018	Supervision of undergraduate student research projects at UCL
since 2017	Supervision and co-supervision of MSc student Individual Projects at UCL
2018-2021	Co-supervision of PhD student at University of Delaware
since 2017	Supervision and co-supervision of PhD student research projects at MSSL
since 2017	Personal Tutor of MSc students at UCL
2015	Supervision of undergraduate student research project at UNH
2013-2014	Supervision of undergraduate student senior thesis at UNH
2008-2009	Teaching Assistant for the recitations to the lecture "Stars and Stellar Evolution" at the University of Bonn
2007	Teaching Assistant for the physics lab course for medicine students at the University of Bonn
2005-2008	Lecturer for the preparatory mathematics course for FFF physics students at the University of Bonn

Engagement

Refereeing for	Acta Physica Polonica A; Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung; Astronomy and Astrophysics; Astrophysics and Space Science; Atmosphere; Basic Plasma Science Facility; Central European Journal of Physics; Chinese Physics Letters; Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica; Czech Science Foundation; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG); Distributed Research utilising Advanced Computing (DiRAC); Earth, Planets and Space; Entropy; Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences; Geophysical Research Letters; Journal of Geophysical Research; Journal of Plasma Physics; Leibniz-Rechenzentrum der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; Narodowe Centrum Nauki; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); National Science Foundation (NSF); Nature; Nature Astronomy; Nature Communications; Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO); New Journal of Physics; Physics of Plasmas; Planetary and Space Science; Royal Society Te Apārangi; Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC); Solar Physics; The Astrophysical Journal; The Astrophysical Journal Letters; The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
since 2021	Member of the Fellowship Support Group at MSSL
since 2021	Mentor for applicants for Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) at UCL
2021-2022	Member of ISSI Team "Heliospheric energy budget: from kinetic scales to global solar wind dynamics"
2021	Organiser of the session "Wave-particle Interactions in Space and Astrophysical Plasmas", RAS National Astronomy Meeting
2021	Convenor of the session "Turbulence and Waves in Space Plasmas" at the EGU General Assembly
since 2020	Chair of the In-situ Science Working Groups for Solar Orbiter
since 2020	Member of the Departmental Teaching Committee (DTC) at MSSL
since 2020	Member of the PhD student intake panel at MSSL
since 2020	Deputy Connected Learning Lead at MSSL during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis
since 2020	Associate Editor for Stellar and Solar Physics, specialty section of Frontiers in Physics and Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
since 2020	Member of the Student Support Working Group at the UCL Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
2020-2021	Member of the Online Teaching Task Force at the UCL Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and at MSSL during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis
2020-2021	Member of ISSI Team "Exploring The Solar Wind In Regions Closer Than Ever Observed Before"
2020-2021	Topic Editor of the Frontiers Research Topic "New Challenges in Space Plasma Physics: Open Questions and Future Mission Concepts"
since 2019	Member of the "Computer Services Steering Committee" at MSSL
2019	Convenor of the session "Linking the Sun to the Heliosphere - the Solar Orbiter Mission" at the National Astronomy Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society
since 2018	Mission Co-PI for the ESA F-Class Proposal Debye
since 2018	Organiser of the "London Space Plasma Meeting" in collaboration with Imperial College London and Queen Mary University of London
2018-2020	Organiser of the SHINE Working Group "Ion and Electron Distributions in the Solar Wind: Kinetic Physics"
2018	Organiser of the session "Really, What is Turbulent Dissipation?", SHINE Workshop
since 2017	Co-Investigator for the Solar Wind Plasma Analyser (SWA) instrument on board the Solar Orbiter spacecraft
2017	Convener of the session "Frontiers of Solar Wind Physics: Collisions and Velocity Space", AGU Fall Meeting
2017	Organiser of the session "Dissipation in the Solar Wind: Kinetic Processes", SHINE Workshop
2017	Organiser of the session "Disentangling Expansion Effects and Collisional Relaxation in the Solar Wind", SHINE Workshop
2016	Primary convener of the session "Non-Maxwellian Distribution Functions in Space Plasmas", AGU Fall Meeting
2016	Organiser of the session "Kinetic Range Physics in the Solar Wind: Turbulence and Waves with Implications for the Turbulent Dissipation Challenge", SHINE Workshop
2015	Primary convener of the session "The Role of Electron Thermodynamics for the Multi-Scale Evolution of the Solar Wind", AGU Fall Meeting
2015	Organiser of the session "What is the Role of non-Maxwellian Ion Distributions in the Solar Wind?", SHINE Workshop
2015	Organiser of the session "The Role of Electron Thermodynamics for the Multi-Scale Evolution of the Solar Wind", SHINE Workshop
2014	Organiser of the session "The Contribution of Electron Microphysics to the Evolution of the Solar Wind", SHINE Workshop
2009-2011	Student Representative at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS)

Memberships in Professional Organisations

since 2020	Member of the Space Universities Network (SUN)
since 2019	Member of the European Astronomical Society (EAS)
since 2018	Individual Member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
since 2017	Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS)
since 2013	Member of the Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft (DGG)
since 2008	Member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU)
since 2008	Member of the European Geosciences Union (EGU)
since 2007	Member of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Extraterrestrische Forschung (AEF)
since 2001	Member of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG)