Curriculum Vitae
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 (C4/W3) at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (Chair of Inorganic & General Chemistry, AC 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
| 2025 | Hutchison Memorial Distinguished Lecturer, University of Rochester, NY, USA |
| 2024 | Earl L. Muetterties Memorial Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| 2023 | Guest Professor, ETH Zürich, CH |
| 2022 | Horizon Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK |
| 2022 | Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry International Award, JP |
| 2022 | XingDa Lecture, Peking University, CN |
| 2018 | Guest Professor at ETH Zürich, CH |
| 2017 | L.A. Chugaev Commemorative Medal, Russian Academy of Sciences, RU |
| 2017 | Ludwig-Mond Award, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK |
| 2017 | Elhuyar-Goldschmidt Award, Royal Society of Chemistry of Spain |
| 2015 | JSPS Professorhip “Brain Circulation Project” Nagoya Institute of Technology, JP |
| 2015 | Visiting Professor at the Nagoya Institute fo Technology, JP |
| 2012 | Visiting Professor at the Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, F |
| 2011 | Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry FRSC, UK |
| 2010 | MBRAUN Lecturer, Pacifichem 2010, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA |
| 2010 | Dalton Transactions European / African Lectureship Award |
| 2009 | Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Award (JSPS), JP |
| 2009 | Visiting Professorship, University of Manchester, UK |
| 2009 | Israel Chemical Society, Lifetime Honorary Member, IL |
| 2004 | Alfred P. Sloan Award, USA |
| 2003 | Faculty Career Development Award, UC Academic Senate, USA |
| 2002 | Hellman Fellow, Christ & Warren Hellman Young Faculty Award, USA |
| 1999/2000 | DFG Postdoctoral Fellowship, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
- German Chemical Society (GDCh), since 1995
- American Chemical Society (ACS), since 1997
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), since 2011
- The Israel Chemical Society, Lifetime Honorary Membership, since 2009
- Wöhler Vereinigung für Anorganische Chemie
- Arbeitsgruppe ADUC
- Fachgruppe Nuklearchemie
- American Nuclear Society (2001 – 2005)
- Editor-in-Chief, Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry, COMC-IV, 2019 – 2022
- Associate Editor, ACS Organometallics, 2014 – 2024
- 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, “Actinides” 2010, 2013, 2017, 2023
- 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, 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