Manager and grant consulting for R&D and innovation projects.

Manager and senior scientist at the Dresden Center for Nanoanalysis (DCN), TU Dresden. The DCN has state-of-the-art tools: a dual beam, a SEM optimized for low-voltage imaging and a micro-XCT to support nanoelectronics research at the TU Dresden. I managed the user facility on a daily basis, supervised PhD students, developed scientific plans and supported customers.

Managing my research independently, I studied and designed materials for radiation chemistry. I studied and designed novel organometallic compounds in a team of organometallic and theoretical chemists, and in collaboration with industry (FEI, ASML).In a parallel project with biochemists and organic chemists (Prof. Ben Feringa, Nobel prize 2016), I functionalized surfaces using self-assembling monolayers. We directed the self-assembly of functional molecules on the nanoscale to make calibration samples for super-resolution microscopy. I supervised BSc, MSc and PhD students, and taught a 2nd year course on Electronics and Signal Processing.

My Veni proposal was titled "Single atom lithography with focused electron beam induced deposition". I achieved the goal of this project by demonstrating that the deposition material can be followed at the molecular level in the electron microscope. Key experiments were performed on an environmental transmission electron microscope at the Technical University of Denmark.

During regular visits I performed nanolithography experiments on the environmental transmission electron microscope at the Center for Electron Nanoscopy, collaborating with dr. Jakob Wagner and dr. Thomas Hansen.

I performed temperature programmed desorption experiments at the Laboratory for Surface Modification, collaborating with prof. Ted Madey.

Over a total of six visits I performed nanolithography experiments on the environmental transmission electron microscope at the John M. Cowley Center for High-Resolution Electron Microscopy, collaborating with dr. Peter Crozier.

I performed nanolithography experiments at the Advanced Photonics Laboratory, collaborating with dr. Patrick Hoffmann.