Research Experience

Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB), Lehrstuhl für Organische Chemie II, Bochum, Germany (2022 - present)

Independent Early Career Research Group Leader (Liebig Fellow)
Feodor Lynen Return Fellow 02/22 - 06/2022, Advisor: Prof. Dr. Wolfram Sander

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, MA, USA (2020 - 2022)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 02/2020 - 01/2022, Advisor: Prof. Christopher C. Cummins

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), Cambridge, MA, USA (2020 - 2022)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 02/2020 - 01/2022, Advisor: Michael C. McCarthy, PhD
- 03/2020: Visiting Researcher at Mauna Kea Observatories, Submillimeter Array (SMA), Big Island, HI, USA

Education

Justus Liebig University (JLU), Institute of Organic Chemistry, Gießen, Germany (2011 - 2020)

Dr. rer. nat. in Organic Chemistry, 10/2016 - 05/2019, Advisor: Prof. Dr. Peter R. Schreiner
- Thesis: “Sweet Life – Reactivity of Novel Carbenes in Tunneling and Sugar Forming Reactions” (summa cum laude)
- 04/2019: Visiting Researcher at University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal,
  Advisors: Prof. Rui Fausto, Cláudio M. Nunes, PhD and Dr. hab. Igor D. Reva
- 08/2018 - 10/2018: Visiting Researcher at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM), Honolulu, HI, USA,
  Advisor: Prof. Dr. Ralf I. Kaiser
M. Sc. in Organic Chemistry, 2014 - 2016
B. Sc. in Organic Chemistry, 2011 - 2014
Abitur 2011 (Theo-Koch-Schule Grünberg)

Awards and Honors

Emmy Noether programme of the DFG ((2024 - 2030)
FCI Liebig Fellowship (2022 - 2025)
Feodor Lynen Return Fellowship (2022)
Dissertation Award (Natural Sciences) JLU Gießen (2020)
Feodor Lynen Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2020 - 2021)
Reaxys PhD Prize Finalist (2019)
FCI PhD Scholarship (2017 - 2019)
Poster Award (691. WE-Heraeus-Seminar, 2019)
GDCh Travel Grant Gordon Research Conference Physical Organic Chemistry, Holderness, NH, USA (2017)
GDCh Prize for the best Chemistry A-levels (2011)

Conference attendances and oral contributions

Resolv Klausurtagung 2024, March 13–15, 2024, Marienfeld, Germany, conference attendance.
Chemiedozententagung 2024, March 11–13, 2024, Aachen, Germany, oral contribution.
ICE 2024: Third Laboratory Astrophysics Workshop, February 18–22, 2024, Kapaa, Kauai, Hawaii, USA, oral contribution.
Solvation Chemistry and Reactive Molecules, 755. WE-Heraeus-Seminar, September 17–23, 2013, Bad Honnef (Physikzentrum), Germany, oral contribution.
Physical Organic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference, June 25–30, 2033, Holderness, NH, USA, Conference attendance.
25th Steinheimer Gespräche, June 15–17, 2023, Mainz, Germany, Conference attendance.
Resolv Klausurtagung 2023, March 08–10, 2023, Marienfeld, Germany, Conference attendance.
Sitzung der DECHEMA-Fachgruppe Kinetik und Reaktionsmechanismen (FGr KIN), January 09, 2023, Frankfurt, Germany, oral contribution.
RESOLV 10th anniversary – Fully RESOLVed?, November 3–4, 2022, Essen, Germany, Conference attendance.>
Phosphorus-Chemistry Seminar Series, February 24, 2022, online, oral contribution.
SWRM Main Group Chemistry in the Southwest Symposium, November 2, 2021, online, oral contribution.
MIT Chemistry Student Seminar Series, December 4, 2020, online, oral contribution.
NISMS Virtual Conference, June 23, 2020, online, oral contribution.
Reaxys PhD Prize Symposium 2019, October 3–4, 2019, Amsterdam, Netherlands, poster presentation.
Physical Organic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference, June 22–28, 2019, Holderness, NH, USA, poster presentation.
Physical Organic Chemistry: Recent developments in instrumentation, structure, theory, and mechanisms, 691. WE-Heraeus-Seminar, February 18–21, 2019, Bad Honnef (Physikzentrum), Germany, poster presentation (poster award).
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, October 8, 2018, Honolulu, USA, oral contribution.
24th IUPAC International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry (ICPOC 24), July 01–06, 2018, Faro, Portugal, poster presentation.
11th Triennial Congress of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC), August 27–September 01, 2017, Munich, Germany, poster presentation.
Physical Organic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference, June 24–30, 2017, Holderness, NH, USA, poster presentation (GDCh travel grant).