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: | ||
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. |