From 1998 until 2005 I studied physics at the
University of Freiburg. This period included an
erasmus stay at the Imperial College in London
from summer 1999 to Summer 2000. From this stay
results publication # 9.
In 2005 I finished my diploma with a
diploma-thesis entitled: 'NMR as a method to
study the crystallization of polymers' in the
group of Prof. Strobl in the field of polymer
physics. Parts of this work can be found in'The Physics of Polymers. Concepts for
Understanding their Structures and
Behavior
by Prof. Strobl.
From june 2005 until october 2008 I did my PhD with
Professor C. Bechinger at the university of
Stuttgart. The topic was "Measuring critical Casimir forces with TIRM"
. As technique we use TIRM
(TIRM = Total Internal Reflection
Micrscopy), a highly sensitive
technique to measure colloid wall interactions
with up to femntonewton resolution. Amongst
other interactions we only recently managed to
measure critical casimir forces
between a colloidal particle and a substrate in
a binary liquid mixture.
In the following you can find a list of my publications, talks
and press reviews on publications.