ORCID: 0000-0001-8520-3971

ResearcherID: G-2020-2011

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Education

University of Karlsruhe (TH)
Ph.D. Theoretical Chemistry (2002)

University of Karlsruhe (TH)
Diplom, Chemistry, (1998)

Appointments and Affiliations

Professor of Chemistry, UC Irvine (2011-present)
Associate Professor of Chemistry, UC Irvine (2008-2011)
Young Scientist Group Leader, Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN), University of Karlsruhe (TH) (2006-2007)
Habilitation, University of Karlsruhe (TH) (2004-2006)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Tulane University (2003)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Karlsruhe (2002)

Academic Distinctions

AAAS Fellow, 2023
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research, with student awardee Jason M. Yu, University of California, Irvine, 2017
Early-Career Award in Theoretical Physical Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 2014
Dirac Medal of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists, 2013
Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory, 2011
Lise Meitner-Minerva Outstanding Young German Scientist Award, 2008
The Young Academy, member, 2006-2011
Dozentenstipendium of the German Chemical Industry Fund, 2007
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize of the German Research Foundation, 2004
Research Award of the Dr. Otto Röhm Foundation, 2003
Student Scholar, German National Merit Foundation 1995-1998