Education and Professional Experience
Feb. 2023 | Associated Member of Scads.AI Dresden/Leipzig |
Oct. 2022 | Assistant Professor “Artificial Intelligence in Theoretical Chemistry”, University of Leipzig (Tenure Track) |
Oct. 2020 – Sep. 2022 | Erwin-Schrödinger (FWF) Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Warwick (Host: Prof. R. J. Maurer), funding: FWF [J 4522N] |
Sep. 2019 – Sep. 2020 | Associated PhD student: MolTag, PhD/doctoral program in pharmaceutical sciences, funding: FWF [W 1232] |
Oct. 2017 – Sep. 2020 | PhD thesis, University of Vienna, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry Supervisors: Priv.-Doz. Philipp Marquetand, Univ.-Prof. Leticia González Title: “Machine Learning for Excited-State Molecular Dynamics Simulations”, funding: uni:docs (grade:[1] 1.0) |
Aug. 2016 – April 2017 | Master thesis, University of Vienna, Institute of Analytical Chemistry; Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. P. Lieberzeit, funding: EU-FP7 ISIS (grade:1 1.0) |
Nov. 2015 – April 2017 | Master program “Chemistry”, University of Vienna (grade:1 1.0) |
Oct. 2012 – Nov. 2015 | Bachelor program “Chemistry”, University of Vienna (grade:1 1.9) |
Grants, Prizes, and Funding
2023 | GSO* Leadership academy fellow |
2022 | Bank Austria Forschungspreis 2022 (Anerkennungspreis) |
26 June – 01 July 2022 | Participation in the 71st Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings 2022 |
Sept. 2021 | Sigrid-Peyerimhoff Promotionspreis: PhD thesis award |
2021 – 2022 | FWF Schrödinger fellowship (J-4522N): 3-year funding (173,290 €) |
2019/2020/2021 | Merit scholarship of the University of Vienna |
Oct. 2019 | NVIDIA Hardware Grant (due to publication 10.1039/C9SC01742A) |
May 2019 | HPC-Europa3 funding for transnational access visits to HPC centres |
Oct. 2017 – Sep. 2020 | Uni:docs fellowship (University of Vienna) to fund PhD thesis |
Publication Track Record
20 publications in peer-reviewed journals (published/accepted), 3 book chapters (14 as first author, 3 as corresponding author). Among them: Nat. Chem. (1), Nat. Comp. Sci. (1), Chem. Sci. (2), Chem. Rev. (1), J. Phys. Chem. Lett. (3), Mach. Learn.: Sci. Technol. (2)
Presentation Track Record
46 invitations and 8 contributed talks at international conferences or (university) seminars.
Among them: GRC (2022), Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings (2022), IPAM (2022), STC (2024, 2021, 2018), IWOM (2021, prize for best lightning talk), VISTA Webinar (2021), DBG (2021)
4 poster presentations: STC (2019), ISTCP-X (2019, best poster award), CECAM (2018), GRC (2018)
Scientific Conference Organization, Public Outreach, and Training
3 conference/workshop organizations: CECAM Workshop 2023, CECAM School 2022, DQML22
Servus TV shoot for P.M. Wissen about why the sun is bleaching, broadcasted Aug. 2020/2021/2022
Training: Mentoring and coaching, project management, recruiting (incl. unconscious bias and EDI)