Education
| 10/2009 | Venia legendi for Theoretical Chemistry, appointment as Lecturer (Privatdozent) Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany |
| 06/2009 | Venia docendi for Theoretical Chemistry Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Habilitation thesis: Synergy Between Theory and Experiment in Structure Resolution of Low-dimensional Systems |
| 11/2000 | Doctorate in Chemistry (summa cum laude) Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Doctorate thesis: Combining Quantum Mechanics and Interatomic Potential Functions in Quantum Chemical Studies of Extended Systems |
| 06/1996 | Master of Science in Chemistry Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland Master thesis: Heterogeneity of Broested Acidic Sites in H-Faujasites Studied by Quantum Chemical Methods |
Academic Career
| 01/2012 – present | Professor of Computational Materials Science, Otto Schott Institute of Materials Research, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany |
| 09/2011 | Visiting Professor, Italian Institute of Technology, National Nanotechnology Laboratories, Lecce, Italy |
| 10/2009 – 12/2011 | Lecturer (Privatdozent), Institute of Chemistry, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany |
| 04/2004 – 12/2011 | Researcher, Institute of Chemistry, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany |
| 10/2001 – 03/2004 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Karlsruhe, Germany (with Prof. R. Ahlrichs) |
| 12/2000 – 09/2001 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Chemistry, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany (with Prof. J. Sauer) |
| 10/1998 – 11/1998 | Visiting Researcher at the Molecular Simulations Inc., San Diego, California, USA |
| 10/1996 – 11/2000 | Doctoral candidate, Institute of Chemistry, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany (with Prof. J. Sauer) |
| 10/1995 – 06/1996 | Max Planck Society scholarship and study of Chemistry, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany |
| 10/1994 – 06/1995 | Scholarship of the Trans-European Mobility Scheme for University Studies (TEMPUS) program and study of Chemistry, Bergen University, Norway |
| 10/1991 – 06/1994 | Study of Chemistry and Physics, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland |
Related Professional Experience
| 05/2010 – 12/2011 | Member of the Council of the Interdisciplinary Center of Computational Sciences Adlershof |
| 08/2009 | Co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Center of Computational Sciences Adlershof |
| 04/2007 – present | Secondary employment as CEO of the TURBOMOLE GmbH |
| 03/2007 | Co-founder of the TURBOMOLE GmbH company |
Awards and Scholarships
| 2001 | Humboldt Prize 2001 (for an outstanding doctorate thesis) |
| 2001 | Joachim Tiburtius Prize of the state Berlin 2001 (for an outstanding doctorate thesis) |
| 10/1995 – 06/1996 | Scholarship of the Max Planck Society |
| 10/1994 – 06/1995 | Scholarship of the Trans-European Mobility Scheme for University Studies (TEMPUS) program |
Professional Memberships
| Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e.V. (GDCh) |
| Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Theoretische Chemie (AGTC) |
| Deutsche Hochschulverband (DHV) |
