Academic leadership

Research visibility paired with service, funding work, and international collaboration.

A professor-level academic dossier requires more than publications; this page organizes the CV's evidence for funding, service, reviewing, projects, awards, patents, and networks.

Academic leadership

Funding, service, international networks, and institutional responsibility.

The CV points to a profile that extends beyond publications: proposal activity, project participation, peer review, patents, awards, conference visibility, and department-level service.

Acquisition of Third-Party Funding

1/21 ETI (Emerging Talents Initiative) - Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nurnberg.
Participation in several DFG and EU third-party funding applications.
Part of the SAN4Fuel project (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03-01 - Twinning), focused on single-atom-based photo(electro)catalysts for green fuel.

Scientific Activities and Service

Patents: EP21166558.3A, PCT/EP2022/058409, and USPTO application #63/499,717.
Reviewer for Electrochim. Acta, Surf. Interf. Anal., Colloids and Interfaces B: Biomaterials, and other journals.
Reviewer of research proposals for Poland, Czech Republic, and Netherlands.
> 20 oral/invited/keynote presentations at international conferences and webinars.
ProfiLehre plus Advanced/Aufbaustufe certificate for teaching in higher education of the Bavarian Universities, 8 Feb 2024.

Institutional Involvement

Since 2023: Member of the Internship Committee of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, FAU.

Selected Awards

Best Oral Presentation at Session 4, CMSE2021.
Best Presentation Award NanoBioMat 2021.
Materials 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award.
Coatings 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award.

International collaborations

Research links across Germany, Europe, Japan, and Singapore.

Prof. Ales Iglic

University of Ljubljana

Slovenia

Prof. Marco Altomare

University of Twente, MESA+ Instituut

Netherlands

Prof. Michael Otyepka

Univerzita Palackeho v Olomouci and RCPTM

Czech Republic

Prof. Manuella Killian

Siegen University

Germany

Prof. Ayumi Hirano-Iwata

Tohoku University

Japan

Prof. Corina Andronescu

University Duisburg-Essen

Germany

Prof. Thomas Kuhne

HZDR/CASUS

Germany

Prof. Silke Christianssen

Fraunhofer IKTS

Germany

Prof. Jason Xu Zhichuan

Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

Singapore