Since 2025: Assistant Professor, Nuclear Science and Engineering Department at MIT
2023 – 2025: PI of the Stellarator Optimization (TSVV-12) – European Collaboration funded by EUROfusion
2022 – 2025: Staff Scientist at the Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP) in Greifswald
2021 – 2023: Deputy task leader of the Stellarator Optimization (TSVV-12) – European Collaboration funded by EUROfusion
2020 – 2024: Stellarator Optimization Task Leader of the HILOADS (Helmholtz International Laboratory for Optimized Advanced Divertor in Stellarators) collaboration
2019 – 2021: EUROfusion Postdoctoral fellow
2016 – 2022: Postdoc at the Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP) in Greifswald in the Stellarator theory group of Prof Per Helander.
University Education
2017: PhD on “Filamentary Plasma Eruptions: ELMs”, York Plasma Institute at the University of York, under supervision of Prof. Howard Wilson
2012: Master of Arts, in Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, advisor: Prof. Chris Hegna
2011: Bachelor of Science, in Physics at the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main,
“Towards a Lattice Boltzmann MHD Algorithm”, advisor: Dr. Paul Romatschke
Academic Awards
Shortlisted for the 2022 Nuclear Fusion Award
EUROfusion Researcher Grant 2019-2021
C R Barber Trus Fund (IOP Travel Fund) June 2015
WW Smith Fund for 2014/2015
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Fellowship for PhD Students for 2013/2014
SIESTA prize winner for 2013/2014 (University prize for best outreach talk of the year chosen by undergraduate students in physics)
Fulbright Fellowship for 2011/2012
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (The German National Academic Foundation) 2010 – 2013
English (Fluent), German (Fluent), Russian (Basics)
2018 Organizing a summer academy course for the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, “Herausforderungen und Errungenschaften der Fusionsforschung”, Leysin, Switzerland
Social Commitments:
Part of the selection panel of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes since 2015
Part of scientific council of the Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics, since 2020
Postdoctoral Representative of Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald, 2018-2020
Club President of the University of York Fencing Club 2014-2015
Captain of the University women’s fencing team, 2013-2014
Postgraduate Student Representative of the Physics Department in York, 2013-2014
Student’s Council at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, i.e. organizer of the introduction week of Physics freshers, 2008-2011
Assistant fencing Coach in VfL Bad Nauheim, 2005-2008
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