Since 12/2015: Research Department Leader, INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials
Since 12/2015: Full Professor (W3), Saarland University
Since 10/2021: Since Managing co-director, saarene – Saarland Center for Energy Materials and Susainbility
Since 10/2021: Editor-in-Chief, Energy Advances, Royal Society of Chemistry
- 12/2022: Environment and Climate Protection Award, City of Saarbrücken
- 09/2022: Zhaowu Tian Prize for Energy Electrochemistry of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE)
- Since 10/2021: Managing Co-Director of saarene – Saarland Center for Energy Materials and Sustainability (saarene)
- Since 10/2021: Editor-in-Chief of the Open Access journal Energy Advances of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
- Since 01/2020: Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
- 03/2017: ARCHES Award for Research Cooperation and High Excellence in Science of the Minerva Foundation (together with Prof. Suss, Israel)
- Since 12/2015: Leader of the Research Department “Energy Materials” at the INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials and Full Professor (W3) at the Department for Materials Science and Engineering at Saarland University in Saarbrücken
- 09/2015: Foundation Award of the Prof. Lenz Foundation (together with Prof. Aabloo, Estonia)
- 07/2015: TR35 Award and recognition as Innovator of the Year for innovators below the age of 35 of the German Edition of Technology Review
- 03/2015: Excellence in Review Award of the Elsevier Journal Carbon
- 06/2014: Listed “Best of Germany Top 40 under 40” in the category science by the journal Capital.
- 06/2013: Ross Coffin Purdy Award (American Ceramic Society)
- 06/2013: Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize (German Research Foundation DFG)
- 05/2013: Bayer Early Excellence in Science Award in the category Materials (Bayer Foundation)
- 04/2013-11/2015: Juniorprofessor (Assistant Professor, W1) in the Department for Materials Science and Engineering at Saarland University in Saarbrücken
- 06/2012-11/2015: Leader of the Junior Research Group “Energy Materials” at the INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials in Saarbrücken
- 07/2011-05/2012: Assistant Research Professor at Drexel University as a member of the Drexel Nanomaterials Group (Prof. Yury Gogotsi)
- 07/2010: Dissertation award of the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
- 02/2010-05/2012: Leader of the Carbide Derived Carbon team as a member of the Drexel Nanomaterials Group (Prof. Yury Gogotsi)
- 02/2010-01/2012: Feodor Lynen Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Drexel University, USA
- 09/2009: Hanns Bruno Geinitz Prize (Senckenberg Naturhistorischen Sammlungen Dresden)
- 06/2009-12/2009: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Applied Mineralogy Group)
- 06/2009: summa cum laude doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Applied Mineralogy Group)
- 09/2008: Bernd Rendel Prize (German Research Foundation DFG)
- 03/2006 – 06/2009: Graduate student in the Applied Mineralogy Group (Prof. Klaus G. Nickel) at the Eberhard Karls Universität in Tübingen
- 02/2006: Diploma in Mineralogy (Dipl. Min.) at the Eberhard Karls Universität in Tübingen
- 10/2001 – 10/2005: Studying geosciences at the Eberhard Karls Universität in Tübingen
- 09/2001: Julius-und-Getraut-Kunert Award for exceptional school achievements
- 06/2001: High school diploma from the Gymnasium Immenstadt
- 04/1982: Born in Immenstadt im Allgäu, Bavaria
