Education:
• Vordiplom, 1986, Philipps-Universität-Marburg, Germany
• Dr. rer. nat., 1991, Philipps-Universität-Marburg, Germany
• Postdoctoral Fellow, 1990-1991, University of California, Davis

Honors & Awards:
• NSF Career Award
• Karcher Lectureship, University of Oklahoma
• Visiting Professor, Monash University, Australia, 2003
• Visiting Professor, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2003

Current Members

Education:
• Ph.D., University of Basel, Switzerland, 2006
• Postdoctoral Fellow, 2007, IRCELYON, France

• Kinetics of the Redox Transmetallation Ligand Exchange (RTLE) Reaction with Di and Triphenylmethanides Ligands

• Structural Studies of Novel Alkaline Earth Metal Primary/Secondary Amides
• Evaluation of Structure Determining Factors in Alkali Metal Chemistry

• Towards the synthesis of heavy alkaline earth pentafluorophenyl complexes
• Effects of solvation vs. ligation in heavy alkaline earth metal tetraphenylborate

• Rare Structural Motifs Based on Triangular Alkaline Earth Metal Cores
• Volatile Perfluoro-t-butoxide Monometallic Alkaline Earth and Lanthanoid Complexes

• Preparation and Characterization of Calcium Phosphonates by Hydrothermal and Solvothermal Synthesis

• Kinetics of the Redox Transmetallation Ligand Exchange (RTLE) Reaction with Substituted Cyclopentadiene Ligands

• Optimization of Redox Transmetallation/Ligand Exchange for the Synthesis of Commercially Viable Alkaline Earth Metal Species

• Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Lightweight Metal-Organic Framework Materials for Efficient Hydrogen Storage and Release
• Synthesis of second generation heavy alkaline earth metal pyrazolates as potential MO-CVD precursors.

• Heavy Alkali/Alkaline Earth Monometallic and Heterobimetallic Complexes

• Kinetics of the Redox Transmetallation Ligand Exchange (RTLE) Reaction with Phenol ligands

• Heavy Alkaline Earth Metal Amides