Curriculum Vitae
Research Experience
Since 01/2022 | Independent Group Leader Technische Universität Dortmund |
Since 11/2023 | Early Carrer Advisory Board member and Guest Editor for ChemPlusChem (WILEY) working closely with Dr. Axel Straube (Editor-in-Chief) to make ChemPlusChem a new home for reporting progresses in interdisciplinary detergent chemistry |
10/2018 – 09/2021 | Postdoctoral Research Associate with Prof. Dame Carol Robinson, University of Oxford |
01/2019 – 06/2021 | Project Leader Oxford/Berlin Joint Seed Grant with Prof. Dame Carol Robinson and Prof. Rainer Haag, University of Oxford and Freie Universität Berlin |
08/2013 – 09/2018 | Visiting Scientist with Prof. Kevin Pagel and Prof. Gerd von Helden, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society |
Education
05/2015 – 09/2018 | Dr. rer. nat Supervisor: Prof. Rainer Haag, Prof. Kevin Pagel, Freie Universität Berlin |
04/2013 – 03/2015 | Master of Science in Chemistry Supervisor: Prof. Rainer Haag, Freie Universität Berlin |
04/2010 – 04/2013 | Bachelor of Science in Chemistry Supervisor: Prof. Rainer Haag, Freie Universität Berlin |
Awards and Funding
09/2024 - 08/2027 | Teaching Award 2025 From: student council of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at TU Dortmund University For establishing a digital and interactive teaching concept in the lecture “Design and synthesis of bioactive substances and drugs” |
09/2024 - 08/2027 | Material Cost Allowance (10,000 €) From: Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI) For exploring a cell-selective detergent chemistry |
07/2023 - 06/2026 | CANTAR network in NRW (167.000 €) From: Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen For establishing amphiphilic tools for structural biology and membrane passage |
01/2022 - 12/2026 | NRW return program (1.25 Mio €) From: Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen For establishing an independent research group and to support the discovery of new drugs against resistant pathogens |
01/2023 – 12/2026 | Junges Kolleg NRW (40,000 €) From: Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste For establishing a holistic sustainability approach in detergent chemistry |
05/2022 - 04/2025 | Material Cost Allowance (10,000 €) From: Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI) For exploring a new detergent chemistry including its impact on drug-resistant bacteria. |
07/2021 | John Fell Fund (1,800 €) From: University of Oxford A pump-priming grant to explore the potential of drug repurposing for combating drug-resistant bacteria. |
10/2020 | Innovation Award From SEPAWA e.V. For “Detergents for Medical Research” |
10/2020 | PhD Award (3,000 €) From: GDCh (Fachgruppe Chemie des Waschens) For an excellent PhD thesis that describes the preparation of new detergent formulations for the investigation of membrane proteins. |
01/2020 | Joint Seed Funding (19,000 €) From: Berlin University Alliance as part of the Oxford/Berlin Research Partnership For fostering a collaboration between the groups of Prof. Dame Carol Robinson (University of Oxford) and Prof. Rainer Haag (Freie Universität Berlin) with the aim to discover the potential of dendritic polymers for membrane protein research. |
10/2017 – 09/2018 | Doctoral Scholarship (17,500 €) From: Focus Area Nanoscale (Freie Universität Berlin) |
10/2015 – 09/2017 | Doctoral Scholarship (49,000 €) From: Fonds der Chemischen Industrie |
05/2015 – 04/2016 | Sachmittel (30,000 €) From: Focus Area Nanoscale (Freie Universität Berlin) |
05/2015 – 09/2015 | Doctoral Scholarship (17,000 €) From: SFB 765 |
12/2014 | Central Teaching Award of the Freie Universität Berlin (10,000 €) From Freie Universität Berlin - Dec 2014 For the implementation of a teaching concept that supports bachelor, master, and PhD students in chemistry and related subjects to translate research ideas into projects. |
Activities
Since 2022 | Member of the Junior-GBM Dortmund |
Since 2020 | Member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Massenspektrometrie (DGMS) |
Since 2014 | Member of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) |
2014 - 2016 | President (2014 – 2017) of the JungChemikerForum (JCF) of the GDCh in Berlin |