Research interests

• Development and application of new methods for structure elucidation
• De-novo identification of compounds
• GC-TOF-MS metabolomic analysis
• LC-MS and FT-MS data evaluation 
• The quest for the Metabolome
• ChemInformatics and BioInformatics
• Statistics for QSPR and QSAR development
• Structure Elucidation of small compounds
• Quantum Chemistry and in silico spectra

Education & Work

2015 Associate Project Scientist, Metabolomics, UC Davis Genome Center, Davis, CA

2009 Assistant Project Scientist, Metabolomics, UC Davis Genome Center, Davis, CA

2004 Postgraduate Researcher, Metabolomics, UC Davis Genome Center, Davis, CA

2004 Postdoctoral fellowship, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Golm, Metabolomic Analysis Group

2001 Guest researcher at the UFZ Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle, Department of Chemical Ecotoxicology

1998 - 2001 Doctorate in chemistry, UFZ Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle, Department of Chemical Ecotoxicology, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerrit Schüürmann, Subject: "Combination of GC-MS and chemometrics for the analysis of compounds in complex environmental samples" [WorldCat OCLC 76696954] [DNB]

1994 - 1997 Diploma in chemistry - University of Leipzig, Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Werner, Subject: "Investigations about the sorption of explosives at polymers of spatial globular structure"

1991 - 1994 Intermediate examinations in chemistry, University of Bayreuth

1988 - 1990 High-school diploma, specialized class for chemistry at the TH "Carl Schorlemmer" technical college, Leuna-Merseburg 

Publications

Please see the list of conference abstracts, papers and grants as well as social media indicators below.

List of publications and conference talks and posters