Current research activities:

• Statics and dynamics of granular systems
• soft matter in space, experiments in microgravity
• probe-variable dependent glassy dynamics

Curriculum Vitae:

	since 2007	Scientific staff at the Institute of Material Physics in Space, German Aerospace Center, Cologne, Germany
	2006/07	Visiting scholar, Universität Göttingen, Germany
	2004-2006	Postdoc at Duke University, USA
	2003/04	Visiting scholar, Universität Konstanz, Germany
	2000-2003	Doctoral thesis research, Technische Universität München, Germany
	1999/2000	Diploma thesis research, Technische Universität München, Germany
	1998	Visiting scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, and Santa Fe Institute, USA
	1993-1997	Study of Physics, Technische Universität München, Germany

Diploma, awards, functions:

	Diploma in Physics, Technische Universität München, 2000, thesis title: Glass Transition in Colloids with Attractive Interaction.
	PhD in Natural Sciences, Technische Universität München, 2003, thesis title: Asymptotic Laws near Higher-Order Glass-Transition Singularities
	Lectureship, Universität Düsseldorf, Germany, 2008/09

Selection of recent publications:

• T. S. Majmudar, M. Sperl, S. Luding, and R. P. Behringer: Jamming Transition in Granular Systems. Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 058001 (2007).
• M. Bayer, J. Brader, F. Ebert, E. Lange, M. Fuchs, G. Maret, R. Schilling, M. Sperl, and J. P. Wittmer: Dynamic glass transition in two dimensions. Phys. Rev. E 76, 011508 (2007).
• M. Sperl: Cole-Cole law for critical dynamics in glass-forming liquids. Phys. Rev. E 74, 011503 (20086).