Selected teaching experience on Bachelor, Master and PhD courses since 2011:
- Inorganic Chemistry
- General Chemistry
- Homogeneous Catalysis
- Green Chemistry
- Nanomaterials
- Industrial Catalysis
- Activation of Small Molecules
- Chemical Energy Storage
Research Interests:
- Activation of small molecules
- Homogeneous catalysis
- Organometallics
- Synthetic Methodology in Organic Chemistry
- Hydrogen storage
- Green chemistry
- Nanoparticles
- Ionic liquids
Selected Stations:
- 2021- Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal/PT
- 2018-2020 Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark/DK
- 2010-2020 University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany/DE
- 2010 Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, DE
- 2007-2010 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil/BR
- 2004-2007 RWTH Aachen, Aachen, DE
- 2004-2007 Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim a. d. Ruhr, DE
- 2002-2003 University of São Paulo, São Paulo, BR
- 1999-2004 University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, DE
Education:
- 2021 Portuguese Habilitation in Chemistry (Título de Agregado), Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
- 2015 German Habilitation, Privatdozent with Venia Legendi (Dr. rer. nat. habil.) in Inorg. Chem., Univ. of Cologne, Germany
- 2007 PhD (Dr. rer. nat.), RWTH Aachen and Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Germany
- 2004 Diploma degree in Chemistry (Dipl.-Chem.), Bergische University Wuppertal, Germany
Selected Awards:
- 2016 FRSC, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), London, UK
- 2015 Heisenberg Fellow, DFG, Bonn, Germany
- 2014 Ernst-Haage-Prize for Chemical Energy Conversion, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, DE
- 2009 NRW Returnee Award, MIWF NRW, Germany
- 2007 Humdboldt Fellow, Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, AvH, Germany
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