2024/2025 Offer Professorship Inorganic Chemistry (successor of the institute director Prof. Adam),
TU Clausthal, declined
since 11/2024 Professor for Inorganic Chemistry and Photochemistry (tenured), University of Mainz
10/2020 - 10/2024 Assistant Professor (W1) for Inorganic Chemistry, University of Mainz
(2023 (Spring) positive interim evaluation)
2017 - 2020 Postdoctoral Researcher in the Oliver Wenger Group, University of Basel (Switzerland)
2019 (Summer) Visiting Scientist in Karl Börjesson's Group, University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
2013 - 2017 PhD Student at MLU Halle-Wittenberg (with Martin Goez)
2008 - 2013 Undergraduate Student at MLU Halle-Wittenberg
Summary of Academic Activities
59 publications in refereed journals such as JACS (9), Angew. Chem. (9), Nat. Chem. (1), Acc. Chem. Res. (1), ACS Catal. (1), JACS Au (2), Chem. Sci. (7), Green Chem. (1), Nanoscale (1). J. Mat. Chem. C (2), Chem. Commun. (1), Inorg. Chem. (1), ChemCatChem (1) and Chem. Eur. J. (5), 25 of them as corresponding author
Journal referee for Chem. Soc. Rev., Nat. Chem., JACS, Angew. Chem., Chem. Sci., ACS Catal., Nat. Commun., J. Mat. Chem.C, Chem. Commun., Chem. Eur. J., Inorg. Chem., Chem. Phys. Chem. and iScience (more than 100 referee reports since 2020)
Referee for the German Research Foundation DFG, the US Department of Energy and the Swiss National Science Foundation, Leopoldina, Humboldt foundation
58 talks at conferences or universities
Teaching: Photochemistry (lecturer and lab assistant), general chemistry (lecturer and tutor),
inorganic chemistry (lecturer for both BSc and MEd students);
average assessment as a lecturer: 1.50 (1… best, 6 … worst, 20 evaluations in total)
Funding: 10 scholarships / project grants (latest grants: Exploration Grant from the Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung, 180 k€; individual DFG projects "PhotonUp4Cat", 248.5 k€ and "1P2P_EnT", 242.5 k€; project within SFB 1552, 326.4 k€)
Supervision and leadership: about 35 supervised and initiated bachelor, master and PhD projects
Academic Self-Governance (and Outreach)
Organizer and chair of FCI scholar meetings in Mainz (2022 and 2025)
Examination board member (JGU Mainz, chemistry and biomedical chemistry courses, since 2021)
