Qualifications and Career
- 2020 Offer Full Professorship (W3) / Inorganic Chemistry, Bonn University, declined
- since 8/2008 Full professor (W3) in Inorganic Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
- 4/2008 Deputizing professor in Inorganic Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
- 2004 Habilitation University of Heidelberg
- 1999 Researcher at University of Heidelberg
- 1999 Post-Doc, University of Zurich, Switzerland (Prof. Dr. H. Berke)
- 1998 Ph.D., University of Heidelberg (Prof. Dr. G. Huttner, summa cum laude)
- 1995 diploma in chemistry, University of Heidelberg (Prof. Dr. G. Huttner)
Academic Distictions
- 2024 Theodor-Förster Memorial Lectureship 2024 by the GDCh Division of Photochemistry
- since 2023 Corresponding Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
- 2022 Science Breakthrough 2022, Engineering and Technology, Falling Walls Foundation Finalist
- 2022 Elisabeth and Prof. Dr. Horst-Dietrich Hardt Prize [press release Saarbrücken] [press release JGU]
- 2014 Interregional Research Price of the Greater Region 2014 (first prize) together with Dr. Patrick Choquet from the Centre de Recherche Public Gabriel Lippmann
- 2007 Hengstberger award of the University of Heidelberg
- 2004 Heisenberg Fellowship of the German Research Foundation
- 2002 Lieseberg Award of the Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences, University of Heidelberg
Science Management
Memberships/Editorials
- since 2023 member of the Board of Directors (2023-2026) of the Wöhler Association for Inorganic Chemistry
- since 2020 member of the International Editorial Advisory Board of Inorganic Chemistry
- 2011-2015 member of the International Advisory Board of Organometallics
- member of AcademiaNet
- member of the Chemische Gesellschaft zu Heidelberg
- member of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker
- member of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Universitätsprofessoren und -professorinnen für Chemie
- member of the Wöhler-Vereinigung für Anorganische Chemie
- member of the American Chemical Society
Academic Self-Governance
- 2017-2020 Vice Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Geosciences, University of Mainz
- 10/2015 - 10/2017 managing director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry, University of Mainz
- 2010-2015 vice managing director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry, University of Mainz
- 2011-2017 member of the Gutenberg-Lehrkolleg, University of Mainz
- 2011-2015 Mitglied des Ausschusses A1 - Studium und Lehre Chemie
- since 2010 Mitglied der Kommission für Forschungsorientierte Gleichstellungsstandards, University of Mainz
- 2008-2016 stellvertretende BAföG-Beauftragte des Fachbereichs 09
Referee activities
- referee for peer-reviewed journals such as Advanced Science, Angewandte Chemie, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Science, Chemistry - A European Journal, Chemical Communications, Chem, Inorganic Chemistry, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, Dalton Transactions, Nature, Nature Chemistry, Nature Protocols, Organometallics, ChemElectroChem, ChemPhysChem, Journal of Physical Chemistry and others
- referee for the German Research Foundation (DFG), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Carl Zeiss Stiftung, the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR), the Humboldt Foundation, the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and others