Awards and honors 06/05 – 06/10 Member of the „Junge Akademie“ at the BerlinBrandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften 09/03 – 08/04 Pappalardo fellowship, MIT 09/01 – 08/03 Research fellowship, German Science Foundation 11/98 – 03/00 PhD scholarship, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes 07/91 – 05/97 Scholarship of the Stiftung Maximilianeum 10/91 – 05/97 Bavarian scholarship for highly gifted students 10/91 – 03/97 Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes 01/91 Winner of the German Mathematics Competition Research Interests Ultracold atoms, their dynamics and topological states in optical lattices (see also public release: Goethe-University, frankfurt-live (german)) Hybrid quantum simulations with ultracold atoms and ions (see press release and synopsis) Strongly correlated electrons Transport through electronic nanostructures (see review on physorg, 2-stage Kondo effect predicted by us was recently observed experimentally) Dynamical mean-field theory and related non-perturbative approaches Numerical renormalization group and flow-equation techniques