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Curriculum Vitae

10/2023 – present Full professor in Organic Chemistry, TU Dortmund
10/2019 – 10/2023 Junior professor (tenure track) in Organic Chemistry, TU Dortmund
01/2018 – 09/2019 Independent junior group leader at the Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Göttingen
10/2017 – 12/2017 Humboldt-Feodor Lynen return fellow for a research stay with Prof. Dr. Manuel Alcarazo at the University of Göttingen, Germany
09/2015 – 09/2017 Postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Dr. Guy Bertrand at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, USA
05/2015 – 08/2015 Employee in the group of Prof. Dr. A. S. K. Hashmi in the Organic chemistry department at Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg
05/2015 Oral PhD defence (summa cum laude)
04/2012 – 05/2015 PhD studies in the group of Prof. Dr. A. S. K. Hashmi in the Organic chemistry department at Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg; “Correlating the Reactivity of Gold and Boron Electrophiles”
11/2012 – 04/2013 Visiting researcher in the group of Prof. Dr. M. Lautens at the University of Toronto, Canada
06/2011 – 12/2011 External Master’s thesis in the group of Prof. Dr. B. M. Trost at Stanford University, USA
12/2010 – 02/2011 Research stay in the group of Prof. Dr. D. S. Wright at the University of Cambridge, UK
08/2010 – 10/2010 Research stay in the group of Prof. Dr. M. Krische at the University of Texas at Austin, USA
10/2009 – 01/2012 Master of Science studies (chemistry) at Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg (grade: 1.0)
05/2009 – 07/2009 Bachelor’s thesis in the group of Prof. Dr. A. S. K. Hashmi at Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg
10/2006 – 07/2009 Bachelor of Science studies (chemistry) at Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg (grade: 1.0)
2006 Abitur

Awards/Memberships

2024 Klung-Wilhelmy science prize
2024 Member of the Early Career Advisory Board of Organic Chemistry Frontiers
2023 JSP-Scholarship for attending the 56th Bürgenstock Conference 2023
2023 Member of the Junges Kolleg der Akademie der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste
2022 ERC Starting Grant
2022 ORCHEM-Prize
2022 FCI Dozentenpreis of the Fonds der chemischen Industrie
2022 ADUC prize 2022 (GDCH)
2022 – 2025 Member of the Science of Synthesis Early Career Advisory Board
2021 Prize of the “Dr. Otto Röhm Gedächtnisstiftung“
2021 Ernst Haage Prize of the Max-Planck Institute (CEC)
2020 Emmy-Noether program of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2019 Thieme Chemistry Journal Award
2018 Liebig-scholarship of the "Fonds der chemischen Industrie"
10/2017 – 4/2018 Feodor Lynen Return Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2016 Karl-Freudenberg award by the Heidelberg Academy of Science and Humanities and member of the “Kolleg der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
2016 Poster prize at the FACS VXI conference in Santa Barbara and poster prize and DAAD travel scholarship for the OMOCS 17 conference (Fort Collins, USA)
2015 Feodor-Lynen scholarship of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation (2 years) for Postdoctoral research at the University of California San Diego (UCSD); DAAD postdoctoral scholarship declined
2013 Winner of the international Reaxys PhD prize
2013 Participation in the 63rd Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting
8/2012 – 5/2015 PhD scholarship of the “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes“
6/2012 – 6/2014 PhD scholarship of the “Fonds der chemischen Industrie”
2011 Victor Meyer prize und prize of the Theodor-Curtius foundation for best performance during the Master studies (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
2011 PROMOS-DAAD scholarship for the research stay at Stanford University (Master’s thesis)
2010 Travel scholarship of the “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes” for research stays at Cambridge University (D. Wright) and University of Texas at Austin (M. Krische)
2009 Prize of the Dr. Otto-Hofmann foundation for best performance during the Bachelor studies (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
11/2006 – 1/2012 Undergraduate scholarship by the “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes“
2006 Prize of the GDCH for the best chemistry A-levels and Prize of the state Hessen for the 1st place in the second round of the International Chemistry Olympiad
Since 2006 Member of the “Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker“ (GDCH) and the “Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft“ (DPG)

Presentations

Oral contributions:
46. University of Freiburg, Germany, 09.12.2024, "From fundamental carbon compounds to new reagents for C-atom transfer"
45. FU Berlin, Klung-Wilhelmy prize lecture, Germany, 21.11.2024, "Von reaktiven Intermediaten zu neuen Reagenzien in der organischen Synthese"
44. RWTH Aachen, Germany, 31.10.2024, "From Fundamental Carbon Compounds to C-atom Transfer"
43. Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, 13.09.2024, "From Fundamental Carbon Compounds to Novel Reagents"
42. FU Berlin, Germany, 14.05.2024, "From Bond Polarization to Novel Carbon Compounds"
41. Laboratoire Hétérochimie Fondamentale et Appliquée, Toulouse, France, 22.02.2024, "From Organic Redox-Systems to Unusual Carbon Compounds"
40. University of Mainz, 12.12.2023, "From Organic Redox-Systems to Novel Carbon Compounds"
39. International Conference on Organometallics and Catalysis (ICOC), Goa, India; 29.10.-02.11.2023  "From polarized olefins to stable diazoalkenes"
38. TU Chemnitz, 13.07.2023, "From Organic Redox-Systems to Novel Carbon Compounds"
37. Physical Organic Gordon Conference, Holderness, US; 24.06.-30.06.2023, "Stable Diazoalkenes – Taming a Reactive Intermediate"
36. LMU München, 19.06.2023, "Polarizing bonds: From organic redox-systems to novel substance classes"
35. TU München, 25.05.2023, "From Organic Redox-Systems to Unusual Organic Molecules"
34. University of Oldenburg, 24.04.2023, "From Organic Redox-Systems to the Stabilization of Elusive Carbon Compounds"
33. University of Düsseldorf; 20.04.2023; “From Organic Redox-Systems to Unusual Carbon Compounds”
32. JungChemiker Symposium Ruhr; 02.03.2023; "Taming Reactive Intermediates in Organic Chemistry: Stable Diazoalkenes"
31. Ruhr-Universität Bochum; 19.01.2023; “From Organic Redox-Systems to Fundamental Organic Substance Classes”
30. University of Tübingen; 10.01.2023; “From organic redox-systems to novel carbon compounds”
29. SERB-DFG Week of Young Researcher (07.11.-10.11. 2022); New Delhi; India „Taming Fundamental Intermediates in Organic Chemistry: Stable Diazoalkenes”
28. ORCHEM 2022; University of Münster; 06.09.2022 „Room temperature stable diazoalkenes”
27. University of Münster; 28.04.2022 „Organic two electron redox systems and novel carbon based compounds”
26. University of Regensburg; online; 09.02.2022 „Organic redox-systems and unusual organic molecules”
25. University of Tel Aviv, Israel; online; 19.12.21 “From organic redox systems to novel carbon compounds”
24. University of Jena; online; 08.12.21 "Organic redox systems and novel carbon based compounds"
23. Ernst Haage award ceremony; MPI Mülheim; 05.11.2021 "From polarized olefins to room temperature stable diazoalkenes"
22. GDCH-Wissenschaftsforum (WiFo); online; (29.8.-1.9.2021) “Taming reactive organic compounds: A room-temperature stable diazoalkene”
21. TU Dortmund Chemistry & Physics Seminar; online; (21.7.2021) “Organic redox-systems and unusual organic molecules”
20. Chemiedozententagung, online; 17.03.2021 “Redox-active hybrid molecules and mesoionic N-heterocyclic olefins”
19. TU Dortmund, online, 19.01.2021; “Organic redox systems and unusual olefins”
18. FCI scholar meeting; University of Münster, Germany; 26.02.2020; "Mesoionic olefins – A new class of strong donor ligands"
17. TU Berlin, Germany; 09.01.2020; "Synthesis of Hybrid-Systems Derived from Pyrylium and Pyridinium Salts"
16. Steinheimer Gespräche, Fonds der chemischen Industrie; 16.05. – 18.05.2019; Mainz, Germany; "Photo- and electrochemistry with organic hybrid molecules"
15. JCF-Symposium; 31.05.2018; University of Göttingen, Germany; “Taming the Untamable: From Carbenes and Phosphinidenes to Radicals”
14. University of Göttingen, Germany; 19.10.2017; “Correlating the Reactivity of Gold and Boron Electrophiles and New Insights into Main Group Chemistry”
13. University of Regensburg, Germany; 28.03.2017; “Gold and Boron – Two Useful Electrophiles in Organic Synthesis”
12. University of Münster, Germany; 23.03.2017; “Gold and Boron – Two Useful Electrophiles in Organic Synthesis”
11. Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaire (ISIS); 21.03.2017, France, “Gold and Boron – Two Useful Electrophiles in Organic Synthesis”
10. University of Aachen, Germany; 20.03.2017; “Gold and Boron – Two Useful Electrophiles in Organic Synthesis”
09. 2nd Annual Chemistry & Biochemistry Postdoctoral Research Symposium; 22.09.2016, La Jolla, USA; “From Electrophilic Boron to Electrophilic Phosphorus”
08. Prize lecture at the Heidelberg Academy of Science and Humanities; 20.05. – 21.05.2016, Heidelberg; Germany; “Correlating the reactivity of gold and boron electrophiles”
07. 251th ACS meeting; 13.03. – 17.03.2016, San Diego, United States; “B(C6F5)3 a unique π-Lewis acid – Rearrangement and Carboboration Reactions”
06. 17th JCF spring symposium; 25.03. – 28.03.2015, Münster, Germany; “Application of B(C6F5)3 as π-Lewis acid in Organic Synthesis”
05. 2nd Reaxys Conference; 21.09. – 24.09.2014, Grindelwald, Switzerland; “B(C6F5)3 a unique π-Lewis acid”
04. PhD seminar of the “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes”; 22.05. – 25.05.2014, Wannseeforum Berlin; Berlin, Germany; “Gold and boron – Two Lewis acids for organic synthesis”
03. 16th JCF spring symposium; 26.03. – 29.03.2014, Jena, Germany; “Organic Synthesis with Two Gold Centres”
02. Meeting of the “Fonds der Chemischen Industrie” (FCI); 31.1.2014, Würzburg, Germany; “Gold and boron – Two unique π-Lewis acids”
01. 1st Reaxys Chemistry Conference; 22.09. – 24.09.2013, Grindelwald, Switzerland; “Two Gold Centers combined for Organic Synthesis – New Concepts and Intermediates”

 

Other conferences attended:
11. Emmy-Noether-Treffen; 07.07.-09.07.23, Potsdam, Germany.
10. 25th Steinheimer Gespräche; 15.6.-17.6.23; Mainz, Germany.
09. 56th Bürgenstock Conference 2023; 07.05.-11.05.23, Brunnen, Switzerland.
08. Hochschule trifft Industrie; 28.09.-30.09.2022, Bieberach an der Riss, Germany.
07. Organic Battery Days; 03.06. – 05.06.2019, Jena, Germany.
06. ACS Publication Forum: Diversity in Inorganic/Organic Chemistry; 10.10. – 11.10.2018, Heidelberg, Germany.
05. 5th Lower Saxony Catalysis Symposium (NIKAS); 19.09. – 20.09.2018, Göttingen, Germany.
04. Chemiedozententagung; 05.03. – 07.03.2018, Jena, Germany.
03. GAIN-meeting (German Academic International Network); 09.09. – 11.09.2016, Washington D.C., USA.
02. Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting; 30.06. – 05.07.2013, Lindau, Germany.
01. Trost Conference; 2011 Stanford University, USA.