Curriculum Vitae

07/2017 – today Full Professor at Technische Universität Darmstadt

12/2016 Offer of Professorship (W3, Chemical Technology) at Technische Universität Darmstadt

12/2016 Offer of Professorship (W2, Chemical Technology) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum

10/2014 – 03/2015 Guest Professor at Ernst-Berl-Institut für Technische und Makromolekulare Chemie, Technische Universität Darmstadt

10/2012 – 06/2017 Group Leader with Prof. R. Palkovits, Heterogeneous Catalysis and Chemical Technology, RWTH Aachen University

12/2010 – 09/2012 Postdoc with Prof. R. Palkovits, Heterogeneous Catalysis and Chemical Technology, RWTH Aachen University

12/2010 – 01/2011 Research Stay with Prof. F. Schüth/R. Palkovits at Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim/Ruhr, Germany

08/2009 – 09/2009 DAAD Fellow with Prof. G. Yushin at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta/GA, USA

08/2007 – 11/2010 PhD thesis (summa cum laude, 17.05.2011) at Dresden University of Technology, „Novel highly porous organic frameworks and fiber materials for application in adsorption and catalysis“, Advisor: Prof. S. Kaskel

10/2002 – 07/2007 Academic studies of chemistry at Dresden University of Technology, Diploma thesis: „Synthesis and characterization of porous poly(phenylene silanes)“, Advisor: Prof. S. Kaskel

Fellowships & Awards

2017 Innovation Award of RWTH Aachen University

2015 DECHEMA Lecturer Award (Hochschullehrer-Nachwuchs-Preis)

2014 Scholarship of the Max Buchner Research Foundation

2012 Scholarship of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI)

2009+2012 DAAD Scholarship

Commissions of Trust

2018 – today Editorial Board Member of the journal Materials (MDPI)

2018 Co-Author of of the “Key Topic Collection for Catalysis Teaching” of the German Catalysis Society (GeCatS)

2015 – today Reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG)

2014 Co-Author of 4th edition of the syllabus “Chemical Technology at Universities” of the DECHEMA

2011 – today Reviewer for international scientific journals such as: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., Small, Chem. Rev., ChemSusChem, Green Chem., Catal. Sci. Technol., J. Catal., Carbon, Microporous Mesoporous Mater., ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., Macromol. Rapid Commun., ACS Macro Lett., Adsorpt. Sci. Technol.

Membership in Scientific Societies

2016 – today Member of the German Association of University Professors (DHV)

2012 – 2017 Founding Member and Representative of YounGeCatS

2011 – today Member of the German Catalysis Society (GeCatS)

2011 – today Member of DECHEMA – Society of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology

2007 – today Member of German Chemical Society (GDCh)