Curriculum Vitae

Postdoc

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Advisor: Prof. Christopher C. Cummins

Dr. rer. nat. (summa cum laude)

Max-Planck-Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry (previously MPI for Radiation Chemistry) Mülheim a. d. Ruhr, Germany, Jan. 1998
Advisor: Prof. Karl Wieghardt
Dissertation: “Molecular and Electronic Structure of High-Valent Transition Metal Nitrido Complexes”

Diploma in Chemistry

Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, May 1995
Advisor: Prof. Karl Wieghardt

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Jan. 2006 – present

Professor at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg (Chair of Inorganic Chemistry II)

Jan. 2001 – 2005

Assistant Professor at UCSD

Oct. 1998 – Oct. 2000

Postdoctoral Fellow, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) at MIT with Prof. Christopher C. Cummins

Feb. 1998 – Oct. 1998

Research Fellowship, Max-Planck-Society

July 1995 – Jan. 1998

Ph.D. Fellowship, Max-Planck-Society

• DFG Postdoctoral Fellowship, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 1999/2000
• Hellman Fellow, Chris & Warren Hellman Young Faculty Award, 2002
• Faculty Career Development Award, Academic Senate, 2003
• Alfred P. Sloan Award, 2004/2005
• Israel Chemical Society, Honorary Member, 2009
• Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester, since 2009
• Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship, 2010
• Dalton Transactions European / African Lectureship Award, 2010
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), 2011
• Visiting Professor at the University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, 2012
• Visiting Professor at the Nagoya Institute fo Technology, Japan 2015
• JSPS Professorhip “Brain Circulation Project” Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan 2015
• Elhuyar-Goldschmidt Award, Royal Society of Chemistry of Spain 2017
• Ludwig-Mond Award, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) 2017
• L.A. Chugaev Commemorative Medal, Russian Academy of Sciences 2017
• Guest Professor at ETH Zürich, 2018

• German Chemical Society, Member (since 1995)
• Fachgruppe Nuklearchemie, Member
• Arbeitsgruppe ADUC
• Wöhler Vereinigung für Anorganische Chemie
• American Chemical Society, Member (since 1997)
• American Nuclear Society, Member (2001 – 2005)
• Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellow (since 2011)

• Editor-in-Chief, Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry, COMC-IV
• Associate Editor, ACS Organometallics, since 2014
• Speaker of Sonderforschungsbereich 583, DFG, 2006 – 2012
• Member of the International Advisory Board, “European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry”, 2009 – 2014
• Member of the International Advisory Board, “Inorganic Chemistry” (American Chemical Society Publications), 2011 – 2013
• Member of the International Advisory Committee, “Plutonium Futures-The Science Conference 2012”, April 2011
• Member of the International Editorial Board, “Journal of Coordination Chemistry”, since 2014
• Member of the International Advisory Board, since 2010, “Actinides 2013”, “Actinides” 2017, “Actinides” 2021
• Member of the International Advisory Board, Karlsruher Synchrotron “ANKA”, 2008 – 2011
• Member of the Review Panel, Director’s Review of Chemical Sciences Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), CA, USA, since January 2010
• Member of the Review Panel, Evaluation Campaign 2011-2014, Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique (CEA, Grenoble, France), 2011-2014
• Currently Reviewer for Journals of the American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, Science (AAAS), Nature (NPG), Wiley-VCH, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (AvH), Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), Academy of Finland
• Volume Editor for Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry-III
  (Volume 2: alkaline and alkaline earth metals, Cu and Zn group)
• Delegate of the Managing Committee COST Action CM1006 “EUFEN: European f-Element Network”, 2011