Curriculum Vitae

January 5th, 1976 Born in Hamburg
06/1995       Abitur (high-school diploma)
07/1995-04/1996 Mandatory military service
04/1996-03/1998 Studies in chemistry at Universität Hamburg
05/1998-09/2000 Advanced studies in chemistry at Ludwig-Maximilians-
Universität München
03/2000-09/2000 Diploma thesis under the guidance of Prof. Herbert Mayr
(physical organic chemistry)
11/2000-01/2004 Coworker with Prof. Helmut Schwarz at Technische Universität
Berlin
11/2000-10/2003 Doctoral Thesis: Gaseous Platinum Clusters - Versatile
Models for Heterogeneous Catalysts
03/2001-05/2001 Research visit with Prof. Peter B. Armentrout at the University of
Utah, Salt Lake City
03/2001-02/2003 Kekulé fellowship of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
11/2004 Schering-Preis of the Schering-Stiftung, Berlin
01/2004-11/2006 Postdoctoral research with Prof. Richard N. Zare, Stanford
University (topic: state-to-state dynamics of the hydrogen
exchange reaction
09/2004-08/2006 Emmy Noether postdoctoral fellowship of the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft
12/2006-10/2011 Independent research at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München
12/2007 Römer-Preis of the Dr. Klaus Römer-Stiftung, München
12/2010 Support from the Dr. Otto Röhm Gedächtnisstiftung, Darmstadt
01/2012 Habilitation (Organic Chemistry)
Since 11/2011 Associate Professor (W2) for Organic Chemistry, Georg-
August-Universität Göttingen
03/2015 Mattauch-Herzog-Förderpreis of the Deutsche Gesellschaft
für Massenspektrometrie
Since 04/2024 Dean of Studies of the Faculty of Chemistry