Grants and Awards
| 01/2020 | CSCS allocation by the Swiss national supercomputing center |
| 01/2019 | NanoSolveIT consortium partner by European Research Councils Horizon2020 program |
| 01/2019 | INCITE award (Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment) funded by the U.S. Department of Energy |
| 03/2018 | Volker Heine Young Investigator Runner-up Award by the Psi-K Network and Nature publishing group |
| 01/2018 | Humboldt return-fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation until end of 2018 |
| 11/2017 | Junior Research Fellowship of the Thomas-Young Center for Simulation of Materials |
| 02/2017 | Dell-Intel Young Investigator Award by the University of Florida’s Quantum Theory Project |
| 12/2016 | PhD prize for the best PhD thesis over all disciplines given by the University society Bonn |
| 04/2016 | Feodor-Lynen fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation until end of 2017 |
| 12/2015 | DAAD scholarship for the International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA |
Work Experience
| Since 02/2022 | Group Science & Technology Office Merck KGaA Head of Digital Chemistry |
| 11/2020 – 01/2022 | Group Science & Technology Office Merck KGaA Senior Scientist |
| 09/2019 -10/2020 | Digital Organization / EMD Digital Merck KGaA In Silico Scientist |
| 02/2019 – 07/2019 | Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing Heidelberg University Guest Senior Researcher |
| 01/2018 – 01/2019 | Institute for Physical Chemistry University of Goettingen Researcher Fellow |
| 04/2016 – 04/2018 | London Centre for Nanotechnology University College London Visiting Lecturer |
| 03/2012 – 03/2016 | Mulliken Center for Theoretical Chemistry University of Bonn Research associate |
| 10/2011 – 02/2012 | Institute for Theoretical Physics Heidelberg University Research assistant |
| 10/2008 – 02/2011 | Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing Heidelberg University Teaching assistant |
Education
| 03/2012 – 07/2015 | University of Bonn PhD in theoretical chemistry Thesis at Mulliken Center for Theoretical Chemistry Development and Application of Electronic Structure Methods for Noncovalent Interactions in Organic Solids |
| 10/2006 – 02/2012 | Heidelberg University Diploma in physics Thesis at Institute for Theoretical Physics Dimensionality of Spinmodulations in Superconducting Cuprates |
| 08/1997 – 07/2006 | High School “Gymnasium Herzogenrath” Abitur, certificate of general university maturity |
