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Studierende laufen über den Campus. Es ist eine große rote Skulptur in Form von großen Zahnrädern zu erkennen. © Roland Baege​/​TU Dortmund

Curriculum Vitae

Research Experience

Since 10/2025Invited scientific advisor
Division of Detergent Chemistry, German Chemical Society
Since 01/2022Independent Group Leader
Technische Universität Dortmund
Since 11/2023Early Carrer Advisory Board member and Guest Editor for ChemPlusChem (WILEY)
working closely with Dr. Axel Straube (Editor-in-Chief) to make ChemPlusChem a new home for reporting progresses in interdisciplinary detergent chemistry
10/2018 – 09/2021Postdoctoral Research Associate
with Prof. Dame Carol Robinson, University of Oxford
01/2019 – 06/2021Project Leader Oxford/Berlin Joint Seed Grant 
with Prof. Dame Carol Robinson and Prof. Rainer Haag, University of Oxford and Freie Universität Berlin
08/2013 – 09/2018Visiting Scientist
with Prof. Kevin Pagel and Prof. Gerd von Helden, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society

Education

05/2015 – 09/2018Dr. rer. nat
Supervisor: Prof. Kevin Pagel, Freie Universität Berlin
04/2013 – 03/2015Master of Science in Chemistry
04/2010 – 04/2013Bachelor of Science in Chemistry

Awards and Funding

11/2025–10/2028DFG Managing Grant (585.000 €)
From: German Research Foundation
11/2024Teaching Award 2025
From: student council of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at TU Dortmund University
For establishing a digital and interactive teaching concept in the lecture “Design and synthesis of bioactive substances and drugs”
09/2024 - 08/2027Material Cost Allowance (10.000 €)
From: Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI)
07/2023 - 06/2026CANTAR network in NRW (167.000 €)
From: Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
Jan. 2022 – Dec. 2026NRW return program (1.25 Mio €)
From: Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
01/2023 – 12/2026Junges Kolleg NRW (40.000 €)
From: Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste
05/2022 – 04/2025Material Cost Allowance (10.000 €)
From: Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI)
07/2021John Fell Fund (1.800 €)
From: University of Oxford
10/2020Innovation Award
From SEPAWA e.V.
For “Detergents for Medical Research”
10/2020PhD Award (3.000 €)
From: GDCh (Fachgruppe Chemie des Waschens)
For an excellent PhD thesis that describes the preparation of new detergent formulations for the investigation of membrane proteins.
01/2020Joint Seed Funding (19.000 €)
From: Berlin University Alliance as part of the Oxford/Berlin Research Partnership
For fostering a collaboration between the groups of Prof. Dame Carol Robinson (University of Oxford) and Prof. Rainer Haag (Freie Universität Berlin) with the aim to discover the potential of dendritic polymers for membrane protein research.
10/2017 – 09/2018Doctoral Scholarship (17.500 €)
From: Focus Area Nanoscale (Freie Universität Berlin)
10/2015 – 09/2017Doctoral Scholarship (49.000 €)
From: Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
05/2015 – 04/2016Sachmittel (30.000 €)
From: Focus Area Nanoscale (Freie Universität Berlin)
05/2015 – 09/2015Doctoral Scholarship (17.000 €)
From: SFB 765
12/2014Central Teaching Award of the Freie Universität Berlin (10.000 €)
From Freie Universität Berlin - Dec 2014
For the implementation of a teaching concept that supports bachelor, master, and PhD students in chemistry and related subjects to translate research ideas into projects.

Activities

Since 2025Member of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM)
Since 2022Member of the Junior-GBM Dortmund
Since 2020Member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Massenspektrometrie (DGMS)
Since 2014Member of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh)
2014–2016President (2014–2017) of the JungChemikerForum (JCF) of the GDCh in Berlin