Curriculum vitae of Michael Kastner

1970, November 9 Born in Nürnberg, Germany

Education and professional experience

1977-1980 Primary school in Erlangen, Germany

1980-1981 Primary school in Herzogenaurach, Germany

1981-1990 Secondary school ("Gymnasium") in Herzogenaurach, Germany

1990-1991 Alternative civilian service at the Arbeiter Samariter Bund in
Herzogenaurach, Germany

1992-1997 Studies in physics at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität
Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

1994-1995 Studies in physics at the Heriot-Watt University of Edinburgh, United
Kingdom

1997-2001 Research and teaching assistant in the group of Alfred Hüller at the
Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Lehrstuhl für Theoretische
Physik I

2001-2004 Post-doc with Roberto Livi in the Dynamics of Complex Systems (DOCS)
group at the Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia in Florence, Italy,
funded by the LOCNET project of the European Commission

March 2004 to present Wissenschaftlicher Assistent (assistant professor) in the
group of Helmut Büttner at the Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Physik I, Univerität
Bayreuth, Germany

Academic degrees

1990, July Abitur at the Gymnasium Herzogenaurach, Germany

1997, November Diploma in physics from the Friedrich-Alexander Universität
Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, with a thesis on "Magnetic properties of finite
spin systems in various statistical ensembles", supervised by Alfred Hüller

2000, March Doctorate in physics ("Dr. rer. nat.") from the Friedrich-Alexander
Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, with a thesis on "Critical phenomena in
the entropy formalism and microcanonical finite-size scaling", supervised by
Alfred Hüller