ORCID orcid.org/0000-0002-1168-0123

  • Born in Germany, raised in France, Germany and USA
  • Studies of Chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, and the E.H.I.C.S. (Ecole des Hautes Etudes des Industries Chimiques de Strasbourg; now ECPM) in Strasbourg, France
  • PhD at the University of Karlsruhe (Germany) with Prof. Evamarie Hey-Hawkins (now Uni Leipzig) on organometallic compounds with metal-phosphor double bonds (Mo, Nb, Ta)
  • Postdocs with Prof. J. Strähle (University of Tübingen, Germany), Prof. J.-M. Lehn (University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France), and Profs. D. Fenske and R. Ahlrichs (Karlsruhe, Germany)
  • Habilitation with Prof. A. F. Williams (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
  • Emmy-Noether-Programm II by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), Karlsruhe, Germany
  • Research Professorship of the SNF (Swiss National Science Foundation), University of Basel, Switzerland
  • Full Professor at the University of Fribourg since October 1st, 2006
  • Currently Vice-President for Research & Innovation of the University of Fribourg (since 2020)

Awards, Prizes and Recognitions

  • Innovation award from Elektrizitätswerke des Kantons Zürich (EKZ)
  • Elected Fellow of the American Chemical Society (since 2013)
  • Elected research councilor FNS 2011
  • Expert and /or evaluation panel for the Polish Science Foundation, Health and Medical Research Fund Hong Kong, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, HCERES
  • Reviewer for J. Am. Chem. Soc., Crystal Growth & Design, Inorg. Chem., Angew. Chem., Chem. – Eur. J., Chem. Comm., CrystEngComm.
  • Guest editor for “Materials” and “Chimia”
  • Elected vice-president of the research council FNS 2015
  • Former President of Frimat & Swiss Society of Crystallography
  • Former President of the Chemistry Department
  • Former Board member Academies of Sciences Chemistry Platform
  • Former Board member of the 125 years jubilee committee of the University of Fribourg
  • Chair & main organizer of the European Crystallography Meeting ECM-30 2016 in Basel
  • Organizer of the annual Fribourg Chaim Weizmann Lectureship
  • Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences since 2018
  • Fellow of Chemistry Europe (Class 2018/2019)
  • Member of the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences (2020)
  • Former Member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation (President of Division IV and Vice-President of Council)

Stipends + Grants

  • Erasmus Grant (European Union)
  • Landesgraduierten-Grant (Baden-Württemberg)
  • Post-Doc-Grant (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
  • Emmy-Noether-Programm II (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) (this is not only for women….  !!!)
  • Förderprofessur (Swiss National Science Foundation)
  • Many additional grants through the Swiss National Science Foundation, Portland Cement Stiftung, Swiss Secretariat for Education andResearch, the Innosuisse (Swiss agency for the promotion of innovation, ex- CTI), the Academies of Sciences, COST, Elektrizitätswerke des Kantons Zürich (EKZ), FRIMAT, NCCR-NANO, MINT-project of the Swiss Academy of Sciences.