Research interests
past research activities
- The QCD vacuum: the dynamical breaking of chiral symmetry and its interrelation with confinement.
- Lattice gauge fixing and the structure of the first Gribov region.
- The adoption of highly parallel hardware systems for computations in lattice QCD.
- Algorithms for hadron spectroscopy and hadron structure.
Academic career
past research stays
- 01/2014-08/2015: Postdoc at Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Roma Tre, Rome (Italy).
- 08/2013-12/2013: Postdoc at Institut für Physik, Universität Graz (Austria).
- 2010-2013: Ph.D. student and STRONGnet ESR Fellow at Institut für Physik, Universität Graz (Austria). Completed with "mit Auszeichnung bestanden" ("passed with distinction").
- March-May 2012: Research stay at School of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland).
- 2009-2010: Diploma thesis at Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Tübingen (Germany).
- 2007/2008: Graduate student at the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook (USA).
- 2004-2010: Diploma studies of Physics at Universität Tübingen. Completed with "sehr gut" ("very good").
