Professional Experience

• since 07/2024 Senior Quantum Software Engineer
  Microsoft, Azure Quantum, Denmark
• 08/2023–06/2024 Software Design Engineer
  Microsoft, Azure Quantum, Switzerland
  Contracted through Experis Switzerland
• 08/2018–08/2023 Postdoctoral Researcher
  Group of Prof. Dr. Markus Reiher
  Laboratory of Physical Chemistry
  ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• 10/2014–07/2018 Scientific Assistant
  Group of Prof. Dr. Johannes Neugebauer
  Organisch Chemisches Institut
  Universität Münster, Germany
• 05/2013–09/2014 Student Assistant
  Organisch Chemisches Institut
  Universität Münster, Germany

  Education

• 10/2014–05/2018 Dissertation (Dr. rer. nat.), Theoretical Chemistry
  Thesis: “Making Embedding Methods Work for Metal–Ligand Systems”
  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Johannes Neugebauer
  Organisch Chemisches Institut
  Universität Münster, Germany
• 04/2016–10/2016 Research Stay, University of Toronto
  Group of Prof. Dr. Robert H. Morris
  Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada
• 10/2012–09/2014 Master of Science, Chemistry
  Thesis: “Towards an improved subsystem-DFT description of covalently bonded fragments”
  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Johannes Neugebauer
  Organisch Chemisches Institut
  Universität Münster, Germany
• 10/2009–09/2012 Bachelor of Science, Chemistry
  Thesis: “Theoretical investigation of C3-symmetrical discotics”
  Supervisor: Dr. Mark P. Waller and Dr. Christian Mück-Lichtenfeld
  Organisch Chemisches Institut
  Universität Münster, Germany
• 08/2001–06/2009 Abitur
  Anne-Frank-Gymnasium Werne, Germany

  Awards

• Evonik Preis 2019
  Awarded for outstanding research during a PhD thesis.
  Given in acknowledgement of the work on Serenity.

  Grants and Fellowships

• 07/2019–06/2021 Research Fellowship
  of the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
• 10/2014–09/2017 Fellowship: IRTG Münster–Toronto
  New Trends in Molecular Activation and Catalysis
  International Research Training Group (IRTG) 2027