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Concerning myself: Born in the year the
first human ever set a foot on extraterrestrial soil, I spent the
first four years of my life in the German City of Osnabrück.
In 1973 my parents, my baby brother Oliver, my grand parents (i.e.
my mother’s parents), and I moved to the countryside near
the city of the Westphalian Peace to a village called Natbergen.
In 1976 I started basic school in the villages of Wissingen and
Jeggen. After four years I regularly changed to Orientation School
in Bissendorf, which I left after two years with a high school
recommendation (Gymnasium). From 1982 to 1989 I went to the
Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium, finally back in Osnabrück. I
left school qualified for university entrance. But before I could
enjoy the sweet life of an university student, I had to complete
my military service. Though I qualified for officer and jet pilot
training, I went for a civilian career. In 1990 I entered the
Technical University of Braunschweig to become an Aeronautics and
Space Engineer. But in the early 90s virtually every major ESA
(and NASA) project was cancelled. That let me to the decision to
change over to Physics, the field I majored in in High School. In
1998 I got my graduation certificate. I stayed at the TU
Braunschweig until I changed to the Physikalisch-Technische
Bundesanstalt (PTB) in Braunschweig where I started my doctorate
in 1999. Waiting for the right project proved worthwhile. I was
able to do my research at the very peak of international science
designing and fabricating superconducting digital electronics for
metrological purposes. I had the chance to travel several times to
the US and present my work in front of an international audience
at renowned conferences. A cooperation with the (US) Office of
Naval Research gave me the opportunity to give lectures at such
distinguished universities as the University of California at
Berkeley, Ca, the Northwestern University at Evanston, Chicago,
Il, and the Arizona State University at Tempe, Az. I defended
my thesis in 2003 at the renowned Friedrich-Schiller-University at
Jena (actually in the exactly same room Erwin Schrödinger
gave lectures in 1920) and was awarded the doctorate with the
distinction “magna cum laude”. As post-doc I stayed at
the PTB to work on the development of new microsystem fabrication
techniques for sub-µm structures for Josephson Arbitrary
Waveform Synthesizers.
During my studies I lived in a
student hostel, where I was a member of the hostel’s student
administration. By long and painful negotiations I was able to
reduce the extras by about 15 % reorganizing certain cleaning and
maintaining procedures. I was engaged in university sports,
where I co-headed the ice hockey department and founded a regional
hockey league, which I managed for several years. Later on I
co-founded a literature club called Phantastika Raum & Zeit e.V.
(Phantastika Space & Time), a society, which goal it is
to support the fantasy and science fiction genre and the German
fantastic literature scene in particular. The club organized
several science fiction and fantasy conventions, most of them
regarded as the best event of the respective year. The club hosts
a website www.ScienceFiction.de which is well renowned and
respected for hundreds over hundreds of reviews of most current
and classical books and stories. A spin-off of the
www.ScienceFiction.de website is www.SpaceTimes.de,
a location hosted by myself, where I collect the most interesting
and spectacular developments of technological invention and
discoveries of space science. Commonly, I refine specific articles
and put them into a more understandable form. Parallel I am
producing and co-hosting a monthly radio show called Phantastische
Welten (fantastic worlds). In this show my wife to be
Claudia and I are discussing the most recent and most exciting
news of science fiction and hard science fact. Concerning
Claudia: I met my wife to be in university. We went steady for
about two years when we decided to move together. A little luck at
the stock market offered us the opportunity to buy a house, which
we totally rehabilitated over the following years.
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