Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg

Curriculum vitae of Dr. Elmar Bittner


Personal Details

Name: Elmar Bittner
Date of Birth: June 14, 1973
Place of Birth: Steyr/Upper Austria
email: E.Bittner(@)thphys.uni-heidelberg.de

Education

09/1987 - 06/1992 High School Graduation, with honors
Höhere Technische Bundeslehranstalt Eisenstadt
Department of Mechanical Engineering
10/1992 - 03/1998 Dipl.-Ing. (MSc in Physics), with honors
Vienna University of Technology
Diploma Thesis: "Lattice Models of Two-dimensional Quantum Gravity"
03/1998 - 10/2001 Dr. techn. (PhD in Physics), with honors
Vienna University of Technology
PhD Thesis: "Quantum Gravity with Spin Fields"
03/1998 - 12/1999 Lehramtsstudium Physik und Mathematik (B.Ed. Physics and Mathematics)
Vienna University of Technology
first (of two) study sections, with honors
10/1998 - 12/1998,
10/2000 - 03/2001
Research Stay at the Institute for Theoretical Physics
University Leipzig with Prof. Janke;
Fellow of the DFG graduate studies programme "Quantum field theory"
at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of Leipzig

Internships

08/1994 Summer Internship at Austrian Airlines, Airport Vienna-Schwechat
08/1995 Summer Internship at VOEST-ALPINE Industrieanlagenbau, Linz
1995 - 1998 Private Lessons Teacher at "Schulverein Josefstadt", Vienna

Professional Experience

05/1998 - 09/1998,
01/1999,
02/2000 - 09/2000
Research Assistant at the Institute for Nuclear Physics,
Vienna University of Technology
04/2001 - 10/2001Research Assistant at the Institute of Atomic and Subatomic Physics for all Austrian universities,
Vienna University of Technology
11/2001 - 09/2002Postdoc at the Institute of Atomic and Subatomic Physics for all Austrian universities,
Vienna University of Technology
10/2001 - 03/2002University Lecturer at the Department of Statistics and Decision Support Systems
of the University of Vienna for "FK Wirtschaftsmathematik 2" (Business Mathematics 2)
and "FK Wirtschaftsstatistik 2" (Business Statistics 2)
10/2002 - 12/2008Postdoc at the Institute for Theoretical Physics,
University of Leipzig
01/2009 - 08/2010 "Akademischer Rat" and Head of IT at the Institute for Theoretical Physics,
University of Leipzig
09/2010 - Research Associate at the Institute for Theoretical Physics,
University of Heidelberg

Community Service

02/1999 - 01/2000 Gottfried von Preyer'sches Children's Hospital, Vienna

Computer Skills

OS: UNIX, Linux, Mac OS X
Windows + Applications
Programming Languages: C, Fortran, Turbo Pascal, MPI
Mathematica, Maple
HTML - Programming

Hobbies and Interests

Sports: Running, Skiing
Others: Cooking, Reading, Movies, Travelling
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