Principal Investigator at the Cluster of Excellence: Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM)

Principal Investigator at the Collaborative Research Center 631: Solid State Based Quantum Information Processing

Investigator at the German-Israeli Project Cooperation DIP-H.2.1 Dynamics of Electrons and Collective Modes in Nanostructures

semiconductor based nanostructures

quantum information processing and communication

mesoscopic devices out of equilibrium

glasses and disordered systems

solid-state-physics at low temperatures

"Nonequilibrium Mesoscopic Systems: Hot Electrons, Phonons & Detector Back-Action"
Future Trends in Nanoelectronics
June 14 – June 16, 2011, Jülich, Germany

"Hot Electrons on the Nanoscale: An Electron Jet Pump and the Transition from Two- to One-Dimensional Scattering"
International Conference on Interactions Among Nanostructures (VCIAN)
April 21 – April 25, 2011, Las Vegas, USA

"The Mystery of the 0.7 Structure of Quantum Point Contacts: New Insights"
NIM and CeNS Winter School 2011
March 27 – April 2, 2011, St. Christoph, Austria

"Interactions in Nonequilibrium Nanoscale Systems – Indirect Back-Action & an Electron Jet Pump"
Colloquium, Department of Physics, Lancaster University
Dezember 1st, 2010, Lancaster, Great Britain

"Tunnelling Systems on Demand: Playing with Few Electrons on the Nanoscale"
Symposium: From Superfluid 3He to Glasses: Snapshots of Matter at Low Temperatures
October 24th, 2010, Stanford, USA

"Indirect Back-Action in Quantum Dot Circuits"
30th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (ICPS)
July 25th – 30th, 2010, Seoul, Korea

"An Electron Jet Pump Based on the Venturi Effect in a Fermi Liquid"
30th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (ICPS)
July 25th – 30th, 2010, Seoul, Korea (presented by my PhD-student Daniela Taubert)

"Non-Equilibrium Interactions on the Nanoscale: An Electron-Jet Pump Illuminates Back-Action in Quantum Dot Circuits"
37th International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors (ISCS)
June 3, 2010, Takamatsu (Kagawa), Japan

"Phonon-Mediated vs. Coulombic Back-Action in Quantum Dot Circuits"
16th International Winterschool Mauterndorf: New Developments in Solid State Physics
February 23, 2010, Mauterndorf, Austria

"Phonon-Mediated vs. Coulombic Back-Action in Quantum Dot Circuits"
IAP Workshop on Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Nanowires
January 19, 2010, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

"The role of phonons for the back-action of a quantum-point-contact charge detector"
Turkish Physical Society, 26. International Physics Congress
Sept. 24 - 27, 2009, Bodrum, Turkey

"Non-Equilibrium Interactions in Nanoscale Circuits"
International Summer School and Workshop on Solid State Based Quantum Information Processing: QIP 2009
June 28 - July 3, 2009, Herrsching, Germany

"Back Action of Biased Quantum Point Contacts"
Nanoelectronics Meeting of CIFAR (Canadian Institute of Advanced Research)
May 11 - 14, 2009, Whistler, Canada

"Phonon-Mediated Non-Equilibrium Interaction between Mesoscopic Devices"
DPG Frühjahrstagung der Sektion Kondensierte Materie (session: HL 8)
March 22 - 27, 2009, Dresden, Germany

"Phonon-Mediated Non-Equilibrium Interaction between Mesoscopic Devices"
Quantum Dynamics in Dots and Junctions: Coherent Solid State Systems
Oct. 05 - 10, 2008, Riva del Garda, Italy

"Non-Equilibrium Interactions in GaAs-Based Nanodevices"
413th Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Seminar: Single Charge Effects in Semiconductor Nanostructures
Sept. 29 - Oct. 1, 2008, Bad Honnef, Germany

"From Equilibrium - to Non-Equilibrium Interaction in Coupled Quantum Dot Devices"
JST-DFG Workshop on Nanoelectronics
March 05 - 07, 2008, Aachen, Germany

"Electronic Interaction in Coupled Quantum Systems"
Joint Conferences on Interaction Among Nanostructures (VC-IAN)
February 03 - 07, 2008, Orlando, Florida, USA

"Transport and charge spectroscopy of an electrostatically defined serial triple quantum dot at low electron numbers"
397nd Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Seminar: Semiconducting Nanowires: Physics, Materials and Devices
October 14 - 17, 2007, Bad Honnef, Germany

"Counter-flow in quantum point contacts and A double dot quantum ratchet"
DIP meeting on Dynamics of Electrons and Collective Modes in Nanostructures
May 11 - 13, 2007, Be'er Sheva, Israel

"Unconventional quantum transport through double quantum dots"
Workshop on 'Nonlinearity and Nonequilibrium in
Condensed Matter'
September 27 - 29, 2006, Windberg, Germany

"A Double Dot Quantum Ratchet Driven by a Nearby Quantum Point Contact"
International Workshop on Solid State Based Quantum Information Processing
May 24 - 26, 2006, Herrsching, Germany

"Wechselwirkende Elektronen in fast leeren Quantenpunkten"
Rundgespräch: Elektronische Struktur von Festkörpern, Experiment und Theorie,
March 1 - 3, 2006, Bad Honnef, Germany

"Quanteneffekte einzelner Elektronen in künstlichen Nanostrukturen"
GMM-Workshop (VDE/VDI-Gesellschaft für Mikroelektronik, Mikro- und Feinwerktechnik) "Devices nach CMOS",
July 16 - 17, 2005, Infineon Technology AG, München, Germany

"Controlling Single Electron Transport through a Double Quantum Dot"
342nd Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Seminar: Science & Technology of Inorganic Nanowires,
February 13 - 16, 2005, Bad Honnef, Germany

"Nonequilibrium dynamics of interacting tunneling systems in glasses"
International Workshop on Collective Phenomena in the Low Temperature Physics of Glasses,
June 16 - 20, 2003
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany

"Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Interacting Tunneling States in Glasses at Ultra-Low Temperatures"
International Workshop on Glassy States of Matter and Non-Equilibrium Quantum Dynamics,
March 31 - June 27, 2003,
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC-Santa Barbara, USA