Astroparticle Related

Previously I was working in the field of Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. I finished a PhD supervised by Dominik J. Schwarz in June 2011 with the thesis “The first second of leptons” (…can be found here).

• My main research circled around the question “What was the particle content of the first three minutes of our universe? And how can we describe it?”.
• My PhD was awarded with a fellowship of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation. Further, I have been an associated  fellow of the international graduate school GRK 881: “Quantum Fields and Strongly Interacting Matter” in the Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics group.
• The “New Scientist” wrote an article about my work on the cosmic QCD transition: “Big bang, part 2: the second inflation”.
• “phys.org” featured a story about my work on neutrino asymmetry and the cosmic microwave background: “Observations of early universe hint at a giant excess of anti-neutrinos”.
• The “New Journal of Physics” published a video of me and Dominik Schwarz in which we introduce our article about lepton asymmetry and the CMB: Video (on youtube).