Professional Experience

2018-now       Full Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Basel, Switzerland Department of Environmental Sciences

2016- 2020     Full Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Cambridge, UK, Department of Chemistry

2012 - 2016    Associate Professor (Reader) of Atmospheric Science at the University of Cambridge, UK, Department of Chemistry

2008 - 2012    Assistant Professor (Lecturer) of Atmospheric Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, UK, Department of Chemistry

2007 - 2008    Senior Scientist at the Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland

2000 - 2007    Lecturer (Oberassistent and Privatdozent) in Analytical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

1999 - 2000    Postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Pasadena, USA

Education

1994-1998      Ph.D. studies at Paul Scherrer Institute and the University of Bern, Switzerland.

1988-1994      Studies of Environmental Sciences at ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Awards/Fellowships

2011                ERC Consolidator grantee (2011 – 2017)

2008                Marian Smoluchowski Award of the Gesellschaft für Aerosolforschung (GAeF)

2007                Award in Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics from the Atmospheric Chemistry &
                        Physics Commission of the Swiss Academy of Sciences

1999                Postdoctoral Fellowship award of the Swiss National Science Foundation