Sceintific Career

• 2023 - Professor of Biophysics, Institute of Experimental Physics, Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
• 2022 - 2026: Principal Investigator in SFB 1507, Institute of Biophysics, Department of Physics, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
• 2019 - 2022 - Emmy Noether Research Group Leader, Institute of Biophysics, Department of Physics, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
• 2016 - 2020: Principal Investigator in SFB 807, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
• 2014 - 2016: Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany & Visiting Researcher at Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, USA
• 2014: Dr. sc. in Biophysics and ESR spectroscopy, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• 2008: M. Eng. in Advanced Science (Biochem. Eng.), Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan

Fellowships and Awards:

• 2024: ‘Rise up!’ Grant from Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation 

• 2022: Best manuscript award by' Journal of Magnetic Resonance Open' in the special issue 'New Voices in Magnetic Resonance'

• 2019:  Emmy Noether Research Group Leader (DFG, Germany)

• 2018: Member of the Johanna Quandt Young Academy at Goethe (JQYA)

• 2018: Young Investigator Award of the German Biophysical Society, Germany

• 2017: Adolf-Messer Prize, Germany

• 2013: Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, Germany

• 2008: Monbukagakusho Ph.D. Fellowship, Govt. of Japan (declined)

Research Interests

• Electron spin resonance spectroscopy
• In-situ / cellular structural biology
• Membrane transport mechanisms
• Membrane biogenesis

Research Grants

A total of 4,818,598 (> 4.8 Mllion) € funding has been raised thorugh DFG, EU and other third-party sources in the last ten years.

• 2024: ‘Rise up!’ Grant from Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation 
• 2022: Principal Investigator in SFB1507 (DFG)
• 2020: Pulsed Q-Band ESR Spectrometer (Großgeräteantrag, DFG)
• 2019: Emmy Noether Research Group Leader (DFG)
• 2019: Science Funding from Johanna Quandt Young Academy at Goethe
• 2016: Principal Investigator in SFB 807 (DFG)
• 2014: Independent Investigator (European Union)