Professional Experience
2007 – present: Professor, Institut de Mathématique Physique, Université de Bourgogne-Franche Comté
2004 – 2007: Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Prof. E. Zeidler)
2003 – 2004: Schloessmann Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Physics (Dr. D. Maison)
2002 – 2003: Marie-Curie Fellow, LUTh, Observatoire de Paris (Dr. E. Gourgoulhon)
2001 – 2002: Schloessmann Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Physics (Dr. D. Maison)
2000 – 2001: Marie-Curie Fellow, University of Paris VI, Laboratoire de Gravitation et Cosmologie Relativistes (Prof. R. Kerner)
1997 – 1999: Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Tübingen (Germany), Division of Theoretical Physics (Prof. H. Pfister)
1994 – 1996: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Max Planck Society, Jena (Germany), ‘Theory of Gravitation’ Research Unit at the FSU Jena (Prof. G. Neugebauer)
Education
4.12.2003: Habilitation (Paris VI)
Thesis: Algebro-geometric Approach to the Einstein and Einstein-Maxwell Equations: Stationary Axisymmetric Case
23.12.1993: PhD, University of Tübingen
PhD Thesis: Rotational Perturbations and Frame Dragging Effects in a Friedmann Universe
Thesis Advisor: Professor Herbert Pfister
1991 – 1993: PhD student, University of Tübingen (Germany), Division of Theoretical Physics
1988 – 1990: MS (magna cum laude), University of Karlsruhe (Germany), Department of Physics
Master’s Thesis: Decay of a Metastable State under the Influence of Weak Damping
Master’s Thesis Advisor: Professor Albert Schmid
29.08.1990: Diploma, University of Karlsruhe
1985 – 1987: BS (magna cum laude), University of Karlsruhe, Department of Physics