Key Facts
Professorship
Theoretical Biophysics, since 1st of October 2024
Department
Physics, TU Dortmund University, Research Center Chemical Sciences and Sustainability (UA Ruhr)
Qualifications
- 2009: Doctorate in Chemistry at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
- 2004: Bachelor in Chemistry/Molecular Materials at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany
Work History
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2020-2024: Associate Professor, Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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2015-2020: Senior Lecturer, Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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2014-2015: Research Assistant, Institute of Materials Physics and Chemistry, University of Strasbourg, France
- 2011-2014: Postdoctoral studies at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
- 2009-2011: Postdoctoral studies at the Bowling Green State University (Ohio), USA
Awards
- ACS OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award
- DFG Mercator Fellowship
- ERC Starting Grant
Main Research Areas
- Computational photochemistry & photobiology
- Molecular switches, biological photoreceptors
- Development of multireference methods
