AboutMe

Studying physics at the Vienna University of Technology

(Bundesanstalt für Lebensmitteluntersuchung und -forschung): Programming Visual Basic for Applications (Excel)

Summer internship at Siemens, Department of Software Engineering : Programming WinWord, Excel, OS/2: REXX, UNIX: shell scripts

Tutor in the beginners' computer course (EDV Proseminar) at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.

Preparation of the section on magnetism for the "virtual exhibition" of the Austrian Academy of Science celebrating its 150^th anniversary.

Summer internship at Siemens, Department of Software Engineering : Programming Perl

Visit to the University of Wales, Bangor. Studies on the numerical simulation of thermal fluctuations in magnetic materials.

Attendance at the 7^th joint MMM-Intermag conference in San Francisco.

Research assistant in the research group of J Fidler. In a Brite/EuRam project on remanence enhanced magnets we have studied the interaction of magnetic particles in bonded magnets by computer simulations.

Attendance at the EMMA '98 conference in Zaragoza, contribution of a paper and presentation of a poster.

Attendance at the HMM '99 symposium in Perugia, contribution of a paper and oral presentation.

I have finished my studies of "Technical Physics" with my diploma thesis Micromagnetic Simulation of Thermally Activated Switching in Fine Particles and I have graduated "with excellence".

For eight months I have done the compulsory military service in the Austrian Armed Forces. I have been trained as a medical soldier. For 6 months I have been rewriting and improving a Microsoft Access database to manage the patients in a military hospital.

I am a Ph.D. student and research assistant in the research group of Josef Fidler and Thomas Schrefl. I am participating in a project of the European Union on "Novel hard magnetic materials for high temperature applications (HITEMAG)".

Seagate Technology has offered me a short term internship at their research department in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. I continue working in the field of numerical micromagnetics, of course with an emphasis on magnetic recording media.

Attendance at the ICFPM 2002 conference in Pittsburgh, contribution of a paper and oral presentation.

I have completed my dissertation Scalable Parallel Micromagnetic Solvers for Magnetic Nanostructures and finished my studies at the Vienna University of Technology.

Attendance at the Intermag 2003 conference in Boston, contribution of a paper and oral presentation.

Attendance at the ICM 2003 conference in Rome, Italy. Contribution of two papers and posters.

PostDoc at Seagate Research in Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Attendance at the 9th Joint MMM/Intermag Conference conference in Anaheim, CA, USA. Contribution of three presentations and two papers.

Invited talk at the NAPMRC 2004 conference in Boulder, CO, USA, on "Micromagnetic Modeling of Head Field Rise Time for High Data-Rate Recording". The paper will be published in a special issue of "IEEE Transactions on Magnetics".

Promotion to full time research staff member at Seagate Research in Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Invited talk at the Intermag 2005 conference in Nagoya, Japan, on "Micromagnetic Simulation of High Speed Head Dynamics in Perpendicular Recording". The paper will be published in a special issue of "IEEE Transactions on Magnetics".

Attendance at the MMM conference in San Jose, CA. Presentation of a paper.