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Professional career

• since 10/2024
  Senior Scientist with Prof. Ralf Tonner-Zech
• 08/2023 - 12/2023
  Parental Leave
• 01/2023 - 03/2023
  Parental Leave
• 09/2022 - 09/2024
  PostDoc with Prof. Ralf Tonner-Zech at Universität Leipzig
• 03/2021 - 08/2022
  Feodor-Lynen PostDoc with R. Q. Snurr at Northwerstern University, USA
• 01/2021 - 02/2021
  Scientific Employee with Prof. R. Tonner-Zech at Universität Leipzig
• 07/2020 - 12/2020
  Scientific Employee with Prof. Thomas Heine at TU Dresden
• 07/2018 - 12/2018
  Parental Leave

Education

• 07/2020
  PhD "Flexible Metal-Organic Frameworks — On Intra- and IntermolecularInteractions“ (summa cum laude), Universität LeipzigSupervisor: Prof. Thomas Heine
• 02/2017 - 08/2017
  Visiting PhD Student with Prof. F. Paesani at University of California San Diego, USA
• 04/2016 - 07/2020
  PhD Student with Prof. Thomas Heine

• Mélix, P.; Heine, T.

  London Dispersion Governs the Interaction Mechanism of Small Polar and Nonpolar Molecules in Metal–Organic Frameworks

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2020. 124 (22). pp. 11985–11989.

  DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c02966
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• Mélix, P.; Paesani, F.; Heine, T.

  A Ligand Field Molecular Mechanics Study of CO2‐Induced Breathing in the Metal–Organic Framework DUT‐8(Ni)

  Advanced Theory and Simulation. 2019. 2 (11). p. 1900098.

  DOI: 10.1002/adts.201900098
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• Mélix, P.; Snurr, R. Q.

  Single-Step Selective Oxidation of Methane by Iron-Oxo Species in the Metal–Organic Framework MFU-4l

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2023. 127 (31). pp. 15227–15238.

  DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c03247
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• Sengupta, D.; Mélix, P.; Bose, S.; Duncan, J.; Wang, X.; Mian, M. R.; Kirlikovali, K. O.; Joodaki, F.; Islamoglu, T.; Yildirim, T.; Snurr, R. Q.; Farha, O. K.

  Air-Stable Cu(I) Metal–Organic Framework for Hydrogen Storage

  Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2023. 145 (37). pp. 20492–20502.

  DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c06393
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• Wasson, M. C.; Wang, X.; Mélix, P.; Alayoglu, S.; Wolek, A. T. Y.; Colliard, I.; Son, F. A.; Xie, H.; Weitz, E.; Islamoglu, T.; Nyman, M.; Notestein, J. M.; Snurr, R. Q.; Farha, O. K.

  Interfacial Unit-Dependent Catalytic Activity for CO Oxidation over Cerium Oxysulfate Cluster Assemblies

  ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 2022. 14 (29). pp. 33515–33524.

  DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c05937
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• Andere Stipendien/Forschungspreise: Feodor Lynen Stipendium

  Mélix, Patrick (Theoretische Chemie komplexer Systeme)

  awarded in 2020 by Humboldt Stiftung.
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