since 2022:
Full Professor for Theoretical Chemistry (W3)
Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie II
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
and
Research Professorship at the
Research Center Chemical Sciences and Sustainability
Research Alliance Ruhr
2017-2022:
Full Professor for Theoretical Chemistry (W3)
Institute for Physical Chemistry
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
2014
Habilitation in Theoretical Chemistry
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
2008-2017:
Head of an Independent Junior Research Group
Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
2007-2008:
Research Associate
Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
with Prof. Dr. Dominik Marx
2006-2007:
Postdoc at the ETH Zurich, USI Campus Lugano
with Prof. Dr. Michele Parrinello
2005:
Postdoc at the Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck Society, Berlin
with Dr. Karsten Reuter
2000-2004:
Graduate Student at the Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck-Society, Berlin
with Dr. Karsten Reuter and Prof. Matthias Scheffler
Ph.D. Thesis: "Dissociation of Oxygen Molecules on the Al(111) Surface"
2000:
External Diploma Thesis at the University of Reading, UK
with Prof. Dr. M. G. B. Drew
1995-2000:
Studies of Chemistry, University of Dortmund
Awards and Fellowships
1997-1998:
WASAG Fellowship
2001:
Jahrgangsbestenpreis Chemie, University of Dortmund
2003:
Winner of the "Young Investigator Competition",
Gordon Research Conference on Dynamics at Surfaces,
Andover, NH, USA
2005:
Otto-Hahn Medal of the Max-Planck-Society
2006-2007:
Postdoctoral fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
2008-2011:
Member of the "Junges Kolleg" of the Academy of Sciences of NRW and research fellowship
2008-2009:
Liebig fellowship of the Stiftung Stipendien-Fonds des Verbandes der Chemischen Industrie
2009-2014:
Head of an Emmy-Noether group of the DFG
2013:
Hans G.A. Hellmann Award of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Theoretische Chemie
2014-2017:
Heisenberg fellowship of the DFG
2017-2019:
Heisenberg Professorship, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
