Education

1989 – 1994                Study of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich

1994 – 1998                Ph. D. student of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich

Scientific degrees

09/1994         M.S. (diploma), summa cum laude

01/1998         Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat), summa cum laude

01/2002              Habilitation (organic chemistry), venia legendi, Philipps University Marburg

Experience

10/1994 – 01/1998     Ph.D. student of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich

12/1997  – 01/2002     Habilitation and head of NMR department, University of Marburg

06/1999 & 05/2000      Visiting professor at INSA/IRCOF University of Rouen, France

02/2002 – 08/2002      Associate professor and Head of NMR department at the Philipps University of Marburg

09/2002 – 03/2005      Professor (C3) at the Rheinischen Friedichs-Wilhelms-University Bonn

04/2005 – present       Professor (C3) for organic chemistry at the University of Regensburg

Others

Functions and memberships

2021                            Spokesperson of the RTG 2620

2021                            Member of the advisory board of the Center for the Promotion of Young Scientists at the University of Regensburg

2011 – present            Member of the technical committee on kinetics and reaction mechanisms of the DECHEMA

2015 – present            Chairman of the Regensburger NMR Center

2017 – present            GDCh selection committee for August-Wilhelm-von Hofmann medal

2011 – 2015                Associate director of the Center for Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry and Biomedicine at Regensburg

2008 – 2011                Board member Liebig Vereinigung (Section Org. Chemistry GDCh)

2008 – 2012                Mentor in the Mentor network of the University of Regensburg

2005 – 2006                Chairman GDCh section Regensburg

Scholarships and awards

2013                            ERC Consolidator Grant “IonPairs@Catalysis”

2008                            Thieme Chemistry Journal Award

06/1999 & 05/2000     Visiting Professor at INSA/IRCOF University of Rouen, France

1989 – 1994                Scholarship holder of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation

Research activities

NMR spectroscopy, structure elucidation of catalyst complexes, detection of reaction intermediates and hydrogen bonds, elucidation of reaction mechanisms, organocatalysis, photocatalysis, inorganic, organometallic and bioorganic systems.