1983 - born in Oschatz, Germany Sept. 2005 – Bachelor of Science, Chemistry, Universität Leipzig (Leipzig, Germany) Oct. 2005 till June 2008 – Master of Science, Chemistry, Universität Leipzig (Leipzig, Germany) July 2006 till March 2007 – Employee at R&D of Contact Materials, Umicore AG & Co. KG, Hanau, Germany Oct. 2007 till March 2008 – Master’s thesis with Prof. Dr. Dan Goia at Center for Advanced Material Processing (CAMP), Clarkson University, Postdam, NY, United States since July 2008 – PhD student at Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society (Berlin, Germany), supervisor: Prof. Dr. Robert Schlögl, in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Peter Strasser, Technische Universität Berlin (Berlin, Germany) Member of the Berlin International Graduate School of Natural Sciences and Engineering (BIG-NSE) and the Cluster of Excellence Unifying Concepts in Catalysis (UniCat)