Projects and Fundings
Initial funding of the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) for the "Juniorprofessur Theoretische Chemie" at the TU Chemnitz (2004).
Financial support of the Juniorprofessur at the TU Chemnitz by the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (2006).
DFG-project AU206/1-1 ``Hochgenaue Berechnungen von NMR-chemischen Verschiebungen -Methodenentwicklung, Eichung und Anwendungen'' (high accuracy calculations of NMR chemical shifts - benchmarks and applications, 2006-2012).
DFG-project ``Synthese formstabiler V-förmiger Nematogene : Ordnung biaxialer Moleküle in nematischen Phasen'' (LE 1571/2-1 - PAK147), joined project with Prof. M. Lehmann (TU Chemnitz) and Prof. F. Cichos (Leipzig) (2007-2009).
Joined project within the Center for Electrochemical Sciences (CES) based in Bochum (2009-2011) in association with the Max-Planck Institut für Eisenforschung.
DFG-project AU206/2-1 in the framework of the SPP 1145 ``modern and universal first-principles methods for many-electron systems in chemistry and physics'' entitled "Development of alternative, screening based, local Coupled Cluster methods and efficient algorithms for parallel architectures " (2007-2011).
DFG-project within the FOR 1497 "Organic/Inorganic Nanocomposites via Twin Polymerization" (organic/inorganic nanocomposites via the twin polymerization), Project "Theorie des Mechanismus der Zwillingspolymerisation" (theory and mechanism of the twin polymerization) (2011-2019).
Scientific coordinator of the MAXNET Energy initiative of the Max-Planck-Society including several joined projects in the field of Electrocatalysis (2013-present).
DFG-project within the SPP "Control of London Dispersion Interactions in Molecular Chemistry" (2015-present).
BMWi-project „Entwicklung von kostengünstigen Hochleistungs-Gasdiffusionselektroden für Polymerelektrolytmembran-Brennstoffzellen mit niedriger Pt-Belegung auf Basis neuartiger HollowGraphiticSpheres-Elektrokatalysatoren“ (high performance gas diffusion electrodes for PEMFCs) Pt-TM/HGS, (2016-2019)
BMBF initiative "Innovative Elektrochemie mit neuen Materialien" (Innovative electrochemistry using novel materials, InnoEMat), project "Grundlagen elektrochemischer Phasengrenzen" (fundamentals of electrochemical phase boundaries, GEP) (2017-2020)