Biography

  • 2021 - present: Director of Research, Department of Chemistry, University College London

  • 2018 - present: Professor of Physical and Materials Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University College London

  • 2016 - 2018: Reader in Physical and Materials Chemistry (Associate Professor), Department of Chemistry, University College London

  • 2011 - 2019: Royal Society University Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University College London

  • 2009 - 2011: University Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Durham University

  • 2007 - 2009: APART Research Fellow (Austrian Academy of Sciences), Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory (M.L.H. Green FRS), University of Oxford

  • 2006 - 2009: RJP Williams Junior Research Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford

  • 2005 - 2007: Erwin Schrödinger Research Fellow (Austrian Science Fund), Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory (M.L.H. Green FRS), University of Oxford

  • 2004 - 2005: Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Innsbruck (E. Mayer) & University College London (J. Finney)

  • 2001 - 2004: PhD in Chemistry (A. Hallbrucker & E. Mayer), promotio sub auspiciis praesidentis rei publicae, University of Innsbruck

  • 1995 - 2001: Undergraduate studies in Chemistry, highest distinction, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Awards & Honours

  • 2014: Visiting professorship at the University of Rome Tor Vergata

  • 2010: Biannual Prize Lecture for Physical Crystallography (British Crystallographic Association)

  • 2004: Recipient of the honorary ring of the President of Austria