Summary of Career
- since 1/2016 – The University of Auckland (Professor)
- 11/2011 – 12/2015 – The University of Auckland (Associate Professor)
- 01/2009 – 10/2011 – University of Vienna (Habilitation, Assistant Professor)
- 08/2006 – 12/2008 – EPFL (Schroedinger Fellow)
- 12/2001 – 07/2006 – University of Vienna (researcher/PostDoc)
Summary of Education
- MSc Chemistry – 1999, University of Vienna
- PhD Chemistry – 2001, University of Vienna “New Ferrocene Derivatives – Synthesis, Characterization and Applications” supervised by Prof. Bernhard Keppler
Publications
169 publications (co)-authored research publications (including in press) and review articles (h index = 50; about 8,600 total citations), 9 book chapters, about 200 lectures and (co)authored conference contributions
For a complete List of Publications – click here.
Research Area
Biological Inorganic Chemistry, Coordination and Organometallic Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Development of Anticancer Compounds, Bioanalytical Chemistry (Mass Spectrometry, Capillary Electrophoresis, Hyphenated Systems)
Peer Esteem
2016–present Member of the ISBOMC Advisory Committee
2015–present Elected member to the Council of the Society of
Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC)
2014–present Member of the AsBIC Advisory Committee
2014 Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna, Austria
2013–2016 Deputy Head of School (research), School of Chemical Sciences,
University of Auckland
2013 Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna, Austria
2011–2016 Management Committee Member COST CM1105 “Functional Metal
Complexes that Bind to Biomolecules”
2010 Visiting Professor, Chimie ParisTech, France
2010–2012 Management Committee Member COST CM0902 “Molecular Machineries
for Ion Translocation Across Biomembranes”
Conference Organisation
2016 Chair of AsBIC8, Auckland New Zealand
2015 Chair of the 1st Auckland Symposium On Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry
2014 Co-chair ISBOMC 7, Vienna, Austria
2007 Co-organiser of a COST WG meeting in Villars-sur-Ollons
2007 local organizing and scientific committee member of ICBIC13, Vienna
2005 (Co-)Organiser of the CESAR meeting on anticancer research, Vienna
Memberships in Scientific Societies
2015–present New Zealand Institute of Chemistry
2013–present Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
Editorial Board Memberships
2015–present Editorial Advisory Board Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
2013–2016 Editor of Metallodrugs
2013–present Associate Editor of Frontiers in Inorganic Chemistry
2010–present Global Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
Awards/Distinctions (selection)
2017 Hood Fellowship (outgoing to Cambridge, UK)
2016 New Zealand Institute of Chemistry Maurice Wilkins Centre Prize
2016 Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry Early Career Award
2015 Fellow of the New Zealand Centre at Beijing University
2015 2nd most cited paper in Journal of Organometallic Chemistry (2013-2014)
2014 HEC Pakistan Outstanding research award for a Chem Commun paper
2011 Carl-Duisberg-Memorial Prize (German Chemical Society)
2010 Innovative Teaching Award Bank Austria
2009 Best paper award in Applied Organometallic Chemistry
2006 Schrödinger Fellowship of the Austrian Science Fund
2005 Award of the “Theodor-Körner-Fonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaft und Kunst”
Cover Pictures
ChemMedChem 2007, 2, 385
Electrophoresis 2010, 31, 1127
Chem. Eur. J. 2010, 16(22), 6397
Chem. Commun. 2012, 48(10), 1326
ChemPlusChem 2017, in press
Plenary Lectures
Chemiedozententagung Mainz (2011)
OZOM-7 (2013)
Pacifichem Hawaii (2015)
ISBOMC Moscow (2016)
Taishan Academic Forum Qufu (2016)
SPACC Okayama (2016)
ICBIC Florianopolis (2017)
