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

eCV 09/2010 (get it here)

research fellowships and experience

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

awards

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

memberships

German Chemical Society, Member (since 1995)

American Chemical Society, Member (since 1997)

American Nuclear Society, Member (2001 - 2005)

Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellow (since 2011)

professional affiliations

Speaker of Sonderforschungsbereich 583, DFG, since 2006

Member of the International Advisory Board, "European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry", since 2009

Member of the International Advisory Board, "Inorganic Chemistry" (American Chemical Society Publications), since 2011

Member of the International Advisory Committee, "Plutonium Futures-The Science Conference 2012", since April 2011

Member of the International Advisory Board, "Actinides 2013", since 2010

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 J. Am. Chem. Soc., Inorganic Chemistry, Science, Nature, Organometallics, Chem. Commun., Dalton Transactions, Polyhedron, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, Angewandte Chemie, and National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Volkswagen Stiftung, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (AvH)

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". since 2011

invited lectures

2011

University of Cambridge, UK, November 2011. Invited Talk

Universität Stuttgart, November 2011. GDCh-Vortrag

ETH Zürich, Oktober 2011. Invited Talk

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA, Oktober 2011. DOE Review Panel

University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, September 2011. University of Cape Town, South Africa, September 2011. Dalton Transactions European / African Lectureship Award. Award Lectures.

Dalton Transactions Younger Research Symposium, University of Warwick, UK, September 2011. Dalton Transactions European / African Lectureship Award. Award Lectures.

AGICHEM 2011, Universität Heidelberg, September 2011. Invited Talk

SFB 813 Summer School "Spectroskopy, Reactivity, Applications", Universität Bonn, September 2011. Opening Lecture

Rare Earth Reserach Conference 2011, Santa Fe, NM, USA, Juni 2011. Invited Talk

Summer School, Karl-Franzens-Universität & Technische Universität Graz, Juni 2011. Invited Talk

Humboldt Universität Berlin, April 2011. Institutskolloquium

EUFEN, Brüssel, April 2011. Kick-off Meeting COST Action "European f-Element Network"

Universität Bonn, Januar 2011. GDCh Vortrag

TU Dresden, Januar 2011. Anorganisches Kolloquium

2010

2010 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, Hawaii, Dezember 2010, Invited Talk

TU Kaiserslautern, November 2010, Invited Talk

YoungChem 2010, Reda, Poland, October 2010. Plenary Lecture

Tohuku University, Sendai, Japan, September 2010. Invited Lecture

60th Anniversary Conference on Coordination Chemistry, Osaka, Japan. Plenary Lecture

Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan, September 2010. Invited Talk

Hiroshima University, Higashi Hiroshima, Japan, September 2010. Invited Talk

Osaka University, Suita Osaka, Japan, September 2010. Invited Talk

Kanazawa University, Kakuma Kanazawa, Japan, September 2010. Invited Talk

Nagoya Institute of Technology, Chikusa Nagoya, Japan, September 2010. Invited Talk

Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, September 2010. Invited Talk

Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ookayama, Japan, September 2010. Invited Talk

Strem Chemicals Inc., Newburyport, USA, August 2010. Invited Seminar

240th ACS Meeting Boston, USA, August 2010. Symposium on Ligand Design & Metal Behaviour. Invited Lecture

Philipps-Universität Marburg, Juni 2010. GDCh Vortrag

Commissariat à l’énergie atomique (CEA) Grenoble, France, June 2010. Invited Seminar

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Mai 2010, Advisory Board meeting ANKA, Invited Talk

239th ACS Meeting San Francisco, USA, March 2010. Award Symposium in Honor of Daniel J. Mindiola. Invited Seminar

University of Manchester, UK, Visiting Professorship Inaugural Lecture, February 2010

2009

TU Berlin, Dezember 2009. Anorganisches Kolloquium

Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Dezember 2009. Anorganisches Kolloquium

Nottingham University, UK, October 2009. Invited Seminar

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Oktober 2009, BMBF Kick-off Meeting

Universität Paderborn, Juni 2009. GDCh Vortrag

RWTH Aachen, Mai 2009. GDCh Vortrag

Technische Universität München (TUM), Mai 2009. Anorganisch-Chemisches Kolloquium

Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), Haifa, Israel, May 2009. Plenary Speaker

Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan, April 2009. Invited Seminar

Kanazawa University, Kakuma, Kanazawa, Japan, April 2009. Invited Seminar

Nagoya University, Furo, Chikusa, Nagoya, Japan, April 2009. Invited Seminar

237th ACS Meeting Salt Lake City, Utah (USA), March 2009. Award Symposium in Honor of Daniel G. Nocera. Invited Speaker

Zing Coordination Chemistry Conference. The Jolly Beach Resort, Antigua, W.I., March 2009.  Invited Speaker

Diaconescu Group Seminar. University of California, Los Angeles, USA, March 2009

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA, March 2009. Invited Seminar

University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, March 2009. Invited Seminar

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, March 2009. Invited Seminar

California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, USA, March 2009. Invited Seminar

University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Feb. 2009. Invited Lecture

Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Jan. 2009. GDCh Vortrag

Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Institut für Kernchemie, Jan. 2009. Invited Seminar

2008

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Dez. 2008. GDCh Vortrag

Bayer Technology, Leverkusen, Nov. 2008. Invited Lecture

Ruperto Carola Symposium Bioenergy Conversion, Universität Heidelberg, Okt. 2008. Invited Lecture

Edingburgh University, UK, Oct. 2008. Invited Lecture

Manchester University, UK, Oct. 2008. Invited Lecture

Oxford University, UK, Oct. 2008. Invited Lecture

University of Sussex, UK, Oct. 2008. Invited Lecture

26th Poland-Germany Colloquium on Organometallic Chemistry, Bad Alexandersbad, Sept. 2008. Lecture

38th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry, Jerusalem, Israel, July 2008. Invited Lecture

Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Juni 2008. Invited Seminar

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, June 2008. Invited Seminar

Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Mai 2008. GDCH Vortrag.

Universität Bayreuth, Jan. 2008. Invited Seminar

2007

Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Dez. 2007. Invited Seminar

Mie University, Tsu-Mie, Japan, Nov. 2007. Invited Seminar

Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan, Nov. 2007. Invited Seminar

International Workshop on "Bioinorganic and Organometallic Perspectives
in Activation of Small Molecules"
Institute for Molecular Sciences (IMS), Okazaki, Japan, Nov. 2007. Invited Talk

John van Geuns Lecture, Van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences,
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Nov. 2007. Invited Talk

ACTINET Meeting, Avignon, France, Oct. 2007. Invited Talk

Heron Island Conference on Reactive Intermediates and Unusual Molecules (Heron 4). Heron Islands, Queensland, Australia, July 2007. Invited Talk

Universität Bielefeld, Juni 2007. GDCh-Vortrag

Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination (LCC/CNRS) / Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse III, France, June 2007. Invited Talk

Universität Regensburg, Anorganisch-Chemisches Kolloquium, Juni 2007. Invited Talk

Freie Universität Berlin, Anorganisch-Chemisches Kolloquium, Juni 2007. Invited Talk

Department of Materials Science & Engineering, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Mai 2007. Invited Seminar

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München, Kolloquium Anorganische Chemie, Mai 2007

233rd ACS Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, USA, March 2007. F. Albert Cotton Award Symposium in Honor of Christopher C. Cummins. Invited Talk

2006

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Chemischen Institute. Bonn, Nov. 2006. Anorganisches Kolloquium

Workshop on the Chemistry of Actinide Molecular Clusters, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institute for Transuranium Elements (ITU), Karlsruhe, Nov. 2006. Invited Talk

Symposium. Universität Erlangen, Okt. 2006. Invited Talk

University of Kanazawa, Kanazawa, Japan, Sept. 2006. Invited Talk

13. Vortragstagung der Wöhler-Vereiningung für Anorganische Chemie. Aachen, Sept. 2006. Invited Talk

232nd ACS Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, Sept. 2006.

Antrittsvorlesung, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät II der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Juli 2006

Philipps-Universität Marburg, Fachbereich Chemie, Hamburg, Juni 2006. Kolloquium für anorganische und analytische Chemie.

Universität Hamburg, Fachbereich Chemie, Hamburg, Juni 2006, Anorganisches Kolloquium

Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Nukleare Entsorgung, Karlsruhe, April 2006. Invited Talk

231st ACS Spring Meeting, Atlanta, GA, USA, March 2006. Inorganic Chemistry Award Symposium in Honor of Karl Wieghardt. Invited Talk  

UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA, March 2006. Invited Talk

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA, Feb. 2006. Invited Talk

Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA, Feb. 2006. Invited Talk

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, Jan. 2006. Invited Talk

2005

Uranium Complexes for Small Molecule Activation Chemistry: Control of Reactivity via Molecular Architecture.
Seminar. Texas A&M University. College Station, TX. Sept. 2005. Invited Talk

Alkane Coordination, CO/CO2 Activation & Nitrogen Atom Transfer Chemistry Utilizing Low- and High-Valent Uranium Coordination Complexes.
Seminar. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Berkeley, CA. May 2005. Invited Talk

Coordination Chemistry with the Heaviest Element, Uranium: A Story of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.
Departmental Seminar. University of Arkansas. May 2005. Invited Talk

Alkane Coordination, CO/CO2 Activation & Nitrogen Atom Transfer Chemistry Utilizing Low- and High-Valent Uranium Coordination Complexes.
2005 DOE-BES Separations and Heavy Element Contractor's Meeting. Rockville, MD. April 2005

SFB 583: Redox-Active Metal Complexes: Control of Reactivity via Molecular Architecture.
Symposium. University of Erlangen - Nuremberg, Germany. March 2005. Invited Talk

Redox-Active Transition and Actinide Metal Complexes for Small Molecule Activation: Control of Reactivity via Molecular Architecture.
Departmental Seminar. University of California, Irvine. Feb. 2005. Invited Talk

Coordination Chemistry at Highly Reactive Uranium Centers: From Alkane Coordination to CO/CO2 Activation & Nitrogen Atom Transfer.
Seminar. Technical University Munich, Germany. Jan. 2005. Invited Talk

2004

Small Molecule Activation at Transition Metal and Uranium Centers in New Trigonal Coordination Environments.
Seminar. Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain. Nov. 2004. Invited Talk.

Small Molecule Activation at Transition Metal and Uranium Centers in New Trigonal Coordination Environments.
Seminar. Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain. Nov. 2004. Invited Talk.

Small Molecule Activation at Transition Metal and Uranium Centers in New Trigonal Coordination Environments.
Organic Chemistry Seminar. University of Zuerich, Switzerland. Nov. 2004. Invited Talk.

Small Molecule Activation at Transition Metal and Uranium Centers in New Trigonal Coordination Environments.
Seminar. Max-Planck-Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry, Muelheim/Ruhr, Germany. Nov. 2004. Invited Talk.

Aktivierung kleiner Molekuele an elektronenreichen Uebergangsmetall- und Urankomplexen.
Group Seminar (Prof. Huttner). Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg, Germany. Nov. 2004. Invited Seminar.

Uebergangsmetall- und Actinoidkomplexe mit sterisch anspruchsvollen Liganden: Neue Koordinationsmodi und Aktivierung kleiner Molekuele.
Inorganic Chemistry Colloquium. Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, Freiburg/Breisgau, Germany. Nov. 2004. Invited Talk.

Small Molecule Activation at Transition Metal and Uranium Centers in New Trigonal Coordination Environments.
Inorganic Seminar. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Oct. 2004. Invited Talk.

Small Molecule Activation at Transition Metal and Uranium Centers in New Trigonal Coordination Environments.
Inorganic - Electrochemistry Seminar. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. Oct. 2004. Invited Talk.

Small Molecule Activation at Transition Metal and Uranium Centers in New Trigonal Coordination Environments.
Departmental Seminar. University of Delaware, Newark, DE. Sept. 2004. Invited Talk.

Uranium Coordination Chemistry: From Alkane Coordination to CO/CO2 Activation & Nitrogen Atom Transfer Chemistry.
Departmental Seminar. Georgetown University, Goergetown, Washington DC. Aug. 2004. Invited Talk.

Metal Complexes of Novel Tripodal N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands: Synthesis, Structure and Reactivity.
228th ACS National Meeting. Symposium: The Use of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Catalysis (Steve Nolan). Philadelphia, PA. Aug. 2004. Invited Talk.

Nitrogen Atom Transfer Chemistry Utilizing High-Valent Uranium(V) Imido Complexes: The Imdio Functionality as a Nitrogen Source for the Synthesis of Carbodiimides.
XXIst International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, Vancouver, Canada. July 2004. Oral Presentation.

Gordon Research Conference: Inorganic Chemistry.
Discussion Leader: Structure & Bonding. Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island, July 2004.

NSF/DOE Workshop "Actinide Science for the 21st Century"
Discussion Leader: Actinide Coordination Chemistry, Washington DC, May 2004.

2003

Hot Chemistry with Depleted Uranium: From Carbene and Alkane Coordination to Small Molecule Activation.
Departmental Seminar. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. Nov. 2003. Invited Talk.

Synthesis and Characterization of Tripodal Carbene Ligands and Their Metal Complexes. Insights into the Electronic Structure of Diaminocarbene Metal Complexes.
Inorganic Chemistry Seminar. University of California, Riverside. Nov. 2003. Invited Talk.

Coordination Chemistry at Highly Reactive Uranium Centers: From Carbene and Alkane Coordination to Small Molecule Activation. Anything is Possible.
Group Seminar (Prof. R.H. Holm) Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Oct. 2003.

Coordination Chemistry at Highly Reactive Uranium Centers: From Carbene and Alkane Coordination to Small Molecule Activation. Anything is Possible.
Inorganic Chemistry Seminar. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Oct. 2003. Invited Talk.

Coordination Chemistry at Highly Reactive Uranium Centers: From Carbene and Alkane Coordination to Small Molecule Activation. Anything is Possible.
Inorganic Chemistry Seminar. University of California, Santa Barbara. Oct. 2003. Invited Talk.

Coordination Chemistry at Highly Reactive Uranium Centers: From Carbene and Alkane Coordination to Small Molecule Activation. Anything is Possible.
Inorganic Chemistry Seminar. University of California, Berkeley. Oct. 2003. Invited Talk.

Coordination Chemistry at Highly Reactive Uranium Centers: From Alkane Coordination to CO/CO2 Activation.
Inorganic Chemistry Seminar/Minority Access to Research in Chemistry (MARC). University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Sept. 2003. Invited Talk.

Engendering Highly Reactive Uranium Species with a Single Pocket for Reactivity: A Synthetic, Spectroscopic, and Computational Study.
5th International Conference on f-Element Chemistry 2003, Geneve, Switzerland, Aug. 2003. Invited Talk.

Engendering Highly Reactive Uranium Species with a Single Pocket for Reactivity: A Synthetic, Spectroscopic, and Computational Study.
Inorganic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference 2003, Newport, Rhode Island, July 2003. Invited Poster Award Talk. have a look @ it here

Engendering Highly Reactive Uranium Species with a Single Pocket for Reactivity: A Synthetic, Spectroscopic, and Computational Study.
Plutonium Futures 2003-The Science Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, July 2003. Invited Talk.

2002

Metal Complexes of Novel Tripodal N-Heterocycliuc Carbene Ligands: A Combined Synthetic, Spectroscopic, and Computational Study.
Inorganic Chemistry Seminar, Westfaelische-Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster, Germany, Dec. 2002.

Uranium Tris-Aryloxide Derivatives Supported by Triazacyclononane: Engendering a Reactive Uranium(III) Center with a Single Pocket for Reactivity.
Inorganic Chemistry Seminar, Westfaelische-Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster, Germany, Dec. 2002.

Hot Chemistry in the Meyer Lab: The Wieghardt-Cummins Fusion Chemistry.
Lecture in Honor of Prof. Karl Wieghardt's 60th Birthday, Max-Planck-Institute for Radiation Chemistry, Muelheim a. d. Ruhr, Germany, July 2002.

pre 2000

Molecular and Electronic Structure of Simple High-Valent Cr, Mn, Fe, and U complexes.

Inorganic Chemistry Seminar, Yale University, New Haven, CT, Jan. 2000.

Inorganic Chemistry Seminar, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, Jan. 2000.

Inorganic Chemistry Seminar, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, Dec. 1999.

Inorganic Chemistry Seminar, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, Dec. 1999.

Inorganic Chemistry Seminar, University of California, Davis, CA, Dec. 1999.

Inorganic Chemistry Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Dec. 1999.

Inorganic Chemistry Seminar, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, Nov. 1999.

Inorganic Chemistry Seminar, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Nov. 1999.

Group Seminar (Prof. Richard H. Holm), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Oct. 1999.

Inorganic Chemistry Seminar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, Sept. 1999

A New Generation of High-Valent Nitrido Complexes - Synthesis, Molecular & Electronic Structure.

Royal Danish Chemical Society, Inorganic Section, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Dec. 1997

Molecular and Electronic Structure of High-Valent Nitrido-chromium and -manganese Complexes.

Inorganic Seminar, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Aug. 1997

Scientific Collaboration on Single-Crystal Absorption Spectroscopy.
Prof. Dr. H.U. Güdel, University of Bern, Switzerland, Feb. 1997