Author of more 38 publications and owner of 4 patents and raiser of ~2.4 Mio. € research funding. High quality publications in Science (x1), Nature Materials (x2, 1 cover), Nature Nanotechnology (x1), Nature Communications (x3), Angewandte Chemie (x4, 1 frontispiez, 1 backcover), Advanced Functional Materials (x3) ACS Nano, and more as a first, as well as last and corresponding* author; Funding covered by Carl Zeiss Foundation (CZF) and German Research Foundation (DFG) and European Social Fonds (ESF+); More than >4850 citations with an h-Index of 24 (Google Scholar); Awarded with Gold Ca
rbon Capture Early Career Award and a Medal for “outstanding contributions to the field of MOF membranes”. Speaker at more than 25 national and international conferences and organizer of 4 conferences and a GDCh online lecture series.
Academic Career
CZ “Breakthroughs” Junior Research Group Leader and Candidate for Habilitation
Since 06.2021
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Otto Schott Institute of Materials Research, Centre of Energy and Environmental Chemistry II, Jena, Germany.
Postdoctoral Group Leader
03.2020 – 06.2021
with Prof. Dr. Christof Wöll, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG), Campus North, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany.
Postdoctoral Researcher
08.2019 – 03.2020
with Prof. Dr. Christof Wöll, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG), Campus North, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany.
Postdoctoral Researcher
08.2018 – 07.2019
with Prof. Dr. Jürgen Caro, Leibniz University Hanover (LUH), Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry (PCI), Hanover, Germany.
Doctor of Natural Sciences (Dr. rer. nat) with distinction (summa cum laude)
01.10.2015 – 18.07.2018
Topic of the thesis: „Switching the gas transport of metal-organic framework thin film membranes with external stimuli“
With Prof. Dr. Jürgen Caro, Leibniz University Hanover (LUH), Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry (PCI), Hanover, Germany.
Visiting Scientist
01.2018 – 06.2018
with Prof. Dr. Jorge Gascon, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, KAUST Catalysis Center, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
Professional Experience
Freelancing Technology Consultant
Since Dezember 2021 with Scharr CPC GmbH, Krefeld, Germany.
Freelancing Technology Consultant
08.2019 – 10.2021 with Sensirion AG, Stäfa, Switzerland.
Industrial collaboration with Evonik Creavis
10.2015 – 03.2018
during the PhD employment
Studies
Master of Science Material- und Nanochemistry
10.2013 – 09.2015
With Master thesis in the group of Prof. Dr. Jürgen Caro, Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry (PCI), Hanover, Germany.
Bachelor of Science Chemie
10.2010 – 09.2013
With Bachelor thesis in the group of Prof. Dr. Nadja C. Bigall, Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry (PCI), Hanover, Germany.
Abitur
2010 Gymnasium Mellendorf, 30900 Wedemark, Germany.
Awards
| 07.2024 | Gold – Early Career “Carbon Capture Innovation Prize”: peer-reviewed projects; awarded at the MOF conference 2024, Singapore: 20.000 € device voucher from Surface Measurement Systems. |
| 10.2023 | Medal for „Outstanding Contribution to the International Zeolite Membrane Community“, awarded at the IZMM 2023 in Nanjing, China. |
| 07.2017 | Award: Poster award, Federation of European Zeolite Association (FEZA) 2017. |
Memberships in Professional Societies
- Early Career Advisory Board member at Microporous and Mesoporous Materials
- Full Member, German Chemical Society (GDCh), Division „Solid State Chemistry & Materials Research“, Germany.
- Alumni-Member of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Young Investigator Network (KIT YIN), Germany.
- Full Member, Deutscher Hochschulverband, Germany