Curriculum Vitae

2020/10 - present, Rudolf Mößbauer Professor, Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Germany

2016/06 - 2020/09, group leader, Chair of Physical Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Germany

• Humboldt Research Fellowship
• Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship (EU Horizon 2020 programme)

2013/04 - 2016/05, Postdoc, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, CA (Miquel Salmeron group)

2012/12 - 2013/03, Research Associate, University of Cambridge, U.K.

• Doctoral Prize, EPSRC (U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

2008/10 - 2012/12, Ph.D. in Physics, University of Cambridge, U.K. (Supervisor: Dr. John Ellis)

• DOC-fFORTE scholarship, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
• EPSRC studentship to cover university and college fees
• Postgraduate stipend, Austrian Exchange Service (ÖAD)

2007/12 - 2008/09, Master thesis in Physical Chemistry (Supervisor: Prof. Erminald Bertel)

2003/10 - 2008/09, Diplom (~M.Sc.) in Chemistry, University of Innsbruck, Austria

• Merit awards (Leistungsstipendien), every study year

Awards and Prizes

• 2019, ERC Starting Grant TACCAMA
• 2018, Member of the Young Academy of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (Junges Kolleg der BadW)
• 2016, Max Auwaerter Prize, Austrian Physical Society (ÖPG)
• 2013, Springer Thesis Prize
• 2011, Best Poster award, Gordon Research Conference, Dynamics at Surfaces, Newport, U.S.A.

Max Auwaerter Prize award, photo by Robert Alexander Herbst