Biography

Diploma of physics, October 1986, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich (ETHZ), department of Mathematics and Physics. Thesis title: "Viability of Gluon Annihilation into a Higgs Associated to a Pair of Top Quarks as a Mechanism for detecting the Heavy Higgs in SSC". Diploma Advisors: Prof. C. Schmid and Prof. D. Wyler.

Ph.D., October 1994, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), department of Physics. Thesis Title: "The Problem of Spin and Charge Separation". Thesis Advisor: Prof. Eduardo Fradkin.

1994-1997: Postdoc at MIT, physics department, worked mostly on disordered systems.

1997-1999: Postdoc at Harvard University, physics department, worked mostly on disordered systems.

1999-present: Research staff at the Paul Scherrer Institute (condensed matter theory).