Professional Career

since 2008 Professor (W3), Institute for Organic Chemistry, University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

2005-2008 Privatdozent, Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Organic Chemistry II, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany

2001-2005 Habilitation, Organic Chemistry II, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany

2000-2001 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

1999 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Organic Chemistry II, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany

1998-1999 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

Academic Education

1995-1998 Dr. rer. nat., Institute of Organic Chemistry I, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

1995Dipl.-Chem. (Chemistry), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

Awards and Fellowships

2006-2008 Heisenberg Fellowship of the German Science Foundation (DFG)

2002Thieme Journal Award

2001-2003 Liebig Fellowship of the German Chemical Industry Funds

1995-1997 State of Bavaria Fellowship

1995-1996 Fellowship by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Memberships in Learned Societies

since 1992German Chemical Society (GDCh)

since 1996American Chemical Society

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