Education
Ph.D. (Dr. phil. nat., summa cum laude), Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• Graduation date: July 3rd 2008
• Advisor: Professor Dr. Carsten Greiner
• Thesis: “Collective Phenomena in the Non-Equilibrium Quark-Gluon Plasma"
Professional Appointments
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA
Distinguished Scientist January 2024 - present
Scientist/Senior Scientist October 2017 – December 2023 (tenure since December 2017)
Associate Scientist July 2014 – September 2017
Assistant Scientist October 2013 – June 2014
Goldhaber Distinguished Fellow April 2012 – September 2013
Research Associate December 2010 – March 2012
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
Adjunct Professor February 2019 – present
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Richard H. Tomlinson Postdoctoral Fellow September 2008 – November 2010
Awards & Recognition
2023 BNL Science & Technology Award
2023 APS Outstanding Referee
2022 Fellow of the American Physical Society
2017 Zimanyi Medal in Nuclear Theory
2014 DOE Early Career Research Program Award
2013 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize for Nuclear Physics
2012 Nuclear Physics A: Young Scientist Award