Optical Engineer at Kampf Telescope Optics (2022-02 – Present)
- Construction and installation of an adaptive optics system for optical communication in space at the Teide Astronomical Observatory (Tenerife).
- Design and construction of optomechanical components enabling 6-dimensional alignment.
- Design and construction of optical assemblies to verify the performance of highly sophisticated optical assemblies.
- Assembly, measurement, analysis and documentation of the optical performance of precision optical systems and subsystems.
- Prepared for and contributed to formal design reviews
- Development of Python analysis tools to evaluate the performance of the modulation transfer function (MTF) of optical systems.
PhD Student at University of Stuttgart (2018-05 – 2022-01)
Research on quantum technologies
- Conduction of the first measurement in the world that combines high spatial and temporal resolution on strongly correlated electron materials with technological applications
- Scientific project co-leader, experiment planning, execution, reporting and interviewing and evaluation of PhD candidates
- Full set-up of modern laser-scanning tunneling microscopy lab: installation and validation (total of ~2M€).
- Supervision of Master and Bachelor students in their projects
Research assistant at Max-Planck Institute (FKF) (2015-07 – 2018-04)
Research on quantum technologies
- Built a novel and state-of-the-art experiment for quantum technology investigations that combine femtosecond temporal resolution with atomic spatial resolution
- Designed and built a versatile and robust optical setup to characterize and perform THz-pump-probe spectroscopy in a scanning tunneling microscope
Research assistant at University of Stuttgart (2014-01 – 2015-01)
Research in atomic physics
- Design of and build an optical setup to measure high frequency modulation in Rydberg atoms
- Design, simulate the response of and test printed circuit board to generate electric fields up to few GHz.
