Biography

• 2015- : Director, Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy(Erlangen, Germany)
• 2015- : Professor of Electrocatalysis, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Erlangen, Germany)
• 2010-2015 : Group leader, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH (Düsseldorf, Germany)
• 2006-2009 : Postdoctoral fellow, Technische Universität München (Munich, Germany) with Ulrich Heiz and Matthias Arenz
• 2003-2005 : Visiting researcher, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, CA, USA) with Philip N. Ross and Nenad M. Markovic
• 1999-2000 : Graduate student exchange, Univesity of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX, USA)
• 1996-2005 : Masters and PhD in Technical Chemistry, Technische Universität Wien (Vienna, Austria)

Awards

• 2014 : DECHEMA preis – award for excellent research in Technical Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology by the Max-Buchner-Society
• 2013 : Science Award Electrochemistry, award sponsored by BASF and Volkswagen
• 2012 : NRW Innovationspreis, award for innovative research by the NRW State
• 2012 : ISE Prize for Applied Electrochemistry, junior (<35) scientist prize by the International Society of Electrochemistry
• 2011 : Anton-Paar Prize, junior (<35) scientist prize by the Austrian Chemical Society
• 2009 : Hans-Jürgen-Engell Prize, junior (<35) scientist prize by the International Society of Electrochemistry
• 2007-2009 : Erwin-Schrödinger Scholarship, postdoctoral research award by the Austrian Science Fund
• 1996-2001 : Erich-Lackner Scholarship; Honors student award by the Erich-Lackner Stiftung