Published on Mar 5, 2019.

Scientist at HLD Dresden. I joined the EMFL as an employee rather recently, but I am both new and old to the European high-field community. During my graduate school at the TU Munich and PhD work at the Walther Meissner Institute in Garching (Germany) I have spent quite some time in most of the labs of the EMFL as an external user. Later, as a postdoctoral researcher in Berkeley, CA (USA) and at the MPI in Dresden, I continued working on various topical materials, such as unconventional and high-temperature superconductors, semimetals, and quantum magnets. High magnetic fields have always been one of the key tools for my research. My most recent works are based on an innovative approach, assisted by focused ion beams (FIB) that can be applied to create microscale experiments from a wide range of single-crystalline materials. With the capability to structure crystals with nanometer precision in three dimensions, we can build a bridge between the macroscopic and the nano-world. From my point of view, the EMFL is very attractive because it brings together scientists from all over the world independent of their cultural, ethnical, or economic backgrounds. In our work, we try to reach beyond of what we currently accept as and believe is the truth, by pushing experiment and theory to their limits. We explore new and unknown territories and uncover black spots on an incredibly huge map. I am particularly excited about the potential of my work to discover effects and material properties that break with existing theories and might open up completely new research pathways. In one of my projects, we combine FIB-microstructured devices for magnetotransport with diamond-anvil pressure cells and pulsed magnetic fields. With this, we can map out the high-field/highpressure phase diagrams of unconventional metals, such as heavy-fermion antiferromagnets. The HZDR provides not only high magnetic fields for my research: The nearby ELBE – Center for High Power Radiation Sources and the Ion Beam Center, together with the Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory offer a unique science landscape plus a tremendous amount of expertise. I am looking forward to fruitful collaborations and experiments as part of the EMFL community.