Team

• Since 1/2024: Full Professor (W3), Organic Chemistry, Saarland University, Germany
• Since 11/2023: Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS)
• 1/2020 – 9/2024: Full Professor (W3) of Organic Chemistry/Biomimetic Catalysis, Leipzig University, Germany
• 1/2018–12/2019: Heisenberg-Professor for Biomimetic Catalysis, Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center, TU Munich
• 6/2014–12/2017: Junior-Research-Group Leader, Department Chemie, TU München, Germany
• 9/2010–5/2014: Junior-Research-Group Leader, Institute of Organic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Germany (maternity leave 08/2013-11/2013)
• 5/2008–8/2010: Postdoctoral-Research Associate with Prof. Dr. P. S. Baran, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
• 3/2004–3/2008: PhD Thesis with Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. G. Bringmann, Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Würzburg, Germany
• 5/2003–2/2004: Diploma Thesis with Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. G. Bringmann, Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Würzburg, Germany

Further Engagements:

• since 2023: Member of the Senate and the Granting Committee for Research Training Groups (DFG)
• since 2023: Ordenary Member of the Saxonian Academy of Science
• since 2023: Advisory Board Member Chemical Science (RSC)
• 2023-2024: Guest Editor for the Special Issue “Hypervalent Halogen Chemistry”, Beilstein Journal of Organic Synthesis
• since 2022: Expert:innen-Pool Center for the Transformation of Chemistry (CTC)
• since 2022: Mentor for Junior-Professor J. Westermayr, Leipzig University
• since 2021: Vice-Speaker Research Training Group 2721 ‘Hydrogen Isotopes’ (DFG)
• since 2021: Advisory Board Member PREPARE Project ‘BioLIGHT’, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
• 2020 - 2023: Member of the committee for Digital Teaching at Leipzig University
• 2020 - 2023: Mentor for female postdoctoral researchers within the Leipzig University t.e.a.m program 
• 2016 - 2019: Mentoring within the TUM Graduate School and the TUM Talent Factory
• 2013 - 2023: Member of the Research Fellowship Committee, Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, Bonn
• Member of the organizing committee for the conference ‘International Hyperpolarization Conference HYP23’, ‘Industry meets Academia 2017’ and the 53rd PhD Workshop ‘Natural Products: Chemistry, Biology and Ecology’
• Regular reviewer for scientific Journals (Nature, Science, Wiley, ACS, RSC, Thieme, Elsevier)
• Member of the FREQ-Network of Female Liebig Scholars

• 2023: Fluorine Publication Prize (GDCh)
• 2023: Offer Full Professorship (W3) Organic Chemistry, TU Dresden (declined)
• 2020 – 2023: Professorinnen-Programm III, BMBF
• 2019: ChemBioTalent
• 2017: CIPSMwomen Fund
• 2017: Heisenberg-Professorship ‚Biomimetische Katalyse‘ (DFG)
• 2017: Offer Associate Professorship (W3) Organic Chemistry, University of Heidelberg (declined)
• 2016: CIPSMwomen Fund
• 2015: BASF Creator Space Science Symposium Award
• 2015: Award of the Dr. Otto-Röhm-Gedächtnisstiftung
• 2014 – 2019: Member of the Excellence Cluster CiPSM
• 2013 – 2022: Emmy-Noether Fellowship of the DFG
• 2013: JSP fellowship for the Bürgenstock conference
• Since 2012: Member of the Fast-Track-Program for Excellent Women in Science, Robert-Bosch Foundation
• 2012: Thieme Journals Award
• 2010 – 2013: Liebig Fellowship of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
• 2009 – 2010: Research Fellowship of the DFG
• 2008: Award for an excellent PhD Thesis of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Wuerzburg
• 2008 – 2009: Postdoctoral Fellowship of the DAAD
• 2007: Klaus-Grohe Award for Medicinal Chemistry of the GDCh
• 2006 – 2007: PhD Fellowship University of Wuerzburg
• 2004 – 2006: PhD Fellowship of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie