• 2016-now Scientific Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany. Part-time professor at the university in Erlangen.
• 2010-2016 Full professor (chair) at Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg at Erlangen, Germany
• 2005-2010 Junior research group leader (junior professor, Emmy-Noether program) at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München (LMU), Germany
• 2003-2005 Postdoctoral fellow at Yale University, USA (group of Steve Girvin)
• 2002-2003 Postdoctoral fellow in the Swiss National Center for Competence in Research in Nanoscale Science (NCCR), Basel
• 1999-2002 PhD student at the University of Basel, Switzerland (group of Christoph Bruder)

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• Talitha Weiss, Stefan Walter, and Florian Marquardt, Quantum-coherent phase oscillations in synchronization, Phys. Rev. A 95, 041802(R) (2017)
• Vittorio Peano, Martin Houde, Florian Marquardt, and Aashish A. Clerk, Topological Quantum Fluctuations and Traveling Wave Amplifiers, Phys. Rev. X 6, 041026 (2016)

• Scientific Director, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany

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