Main Research Interests: Dark matter Collider physics Theory and phenomenology of neutrinos Physics beyond the standard model Numerical techniques Distinctions 2014 Award of an ERC Starting Grant 2010 Otto Hahn Medal of the German Max Planck Society, combined with the offer of a position as leader of an Otto Hahn Junior Research Group (3–4 awards per year across all Max Planck Institutes and all subject areas) 2007 – 2009 Ph.D. scholarship from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation) 2004 – 2006 Undergraduate scholarship from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes