• 1995-2000:
  Studies of Chemistry at the University of Dortmund, Germany
  



• 2000:
  External Diploma Thesis at the University of Reading, UK
  with Prof. M.G.B. Drew
  Research Topic: "Water-Structuring Properties of Carbohydrates"
  



• 2000-2004:
  Graduate Student at the Fritz-Haber-Institut of the Max-Planck-Society, Berlin, Germany,
  with Dr. Karsten Reuter and Prof. Matthias Scheffler
  Ph.D. Thesis: "Dissociation of Oxygen Molecules on the Al(111) Surface"
  



• 2005:
  Postdoc at the Fritz-Haber-Institut of the Max-Planck-Society, Berlin, Germany,
  with Dr. Karsten Reuter
  



• 2006-2007:
  Postdoc at the ETH Zurich, USI-Campus Lugano, Switzerland,
  with Prof. Michele Parrinello
  Research Topic: "Metadynamics Simulations of Phase Transitions in Solids"
  



• 2007-2008:
  Research Associate at the Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany,
  with Prof. Dominik Marx
  



• 2008-2017:
  Head of an Independent Junior Research Group, Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
  



• June 2014:
  Habilitation in Theoretical Chemistry, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
  



• since February 2017:
  Full Professor for Theoretical Chemistry (W3), Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
  

Awards and Fellowships

• 1997-1998:
  WASAG fellowship
  



• 2001:
  Jahrgangsbestenpreis Chemie der Universität Dortmund
  



• 2003:
  Winner of the "Young Investigator Competition",
  Gordon Research Conference on Dynamics at Surfaces,
  Andover, NH, USA
  



• 2005:
  Otto-Hahn Medal of the Max-Planck-Society
  



• 2006-2007:
  Postdoctoral fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
  



• 2008-2011:
  Member of the "Junges Kolleg" of the Academy of Sciences of NRW and research fellowship
  



• 04/2008-04/2009:
  Liebig fellowship of the Stiftung Stipendien-Fonds des Verbandes der Chemischen Industrie
  



• 05/2009-08/2014:
  Head of an Emmy-Noether group of the DFG
  



• 2013:
  Hans G. A. Hellmann Award of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Theoretische Chemie
  



• 09/2014-01/2017:
  Heisenberg fellowship of the DFG
  



• 02/2017-08/2019:
  Heisenberg Professorship, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
  

Memberships

• Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
  



• Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker
  



• Deutsche Bunsengesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie
  



• Arbeitsgemeinschaft Theoretische Chemie