I was born in Karlsruhe, Germany and grew up in Kraichtal, a small town in Germany located on the triangle spanned by the three cities of Karlsruhe, Heidelberg and Stuttgart. After my highschool, which was the Justus Knecht Gymnasium in Bruchsal.
I did my undergraduate and graduate studies (which are usually combined in Germany) at the Department of Physics at the University of Karlsruhe, where I graduated with a Diplom (equivalent to Master of Science). Then I continued graduate studies where I had spent previously a year of student exchange, at the Department of Physics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where I received a MS and a PhD in physics.
Shortly before my graduation, I married my wonderful wife Havva and
we moved to Cambridge,
Massachusetts, where Havva got
accepted to Harvard Law
School, while I got a job as a post-doc
at the Richard D. Berlin Center for
Cell Analysis and Modelling (CCAM).
