Research:
Homogeneous catalysis with transition-metal and p-block compounds; optoelectronic materials; unusual bonding situations; elucidation of reaction mechanisms

Selected memberships and awards
1997 Karl-Winnacker-Award of the Hoechst AG
1998 Heisenberg grant of the DFG
2000-2008 Advisor for scholarship holders from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
2002-2009 Managing Director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry
2004-2009 Editorial Board Member of the journal Nachrichten aus der Chemie
Since 2007 Jury member: Price for excellent teaching at universities in the state of Hesse
(Hessischer Hochschulpreis für Exzellenz in der Lehre) awarded by the
Hessian Ministry for Science and Culture
Since 2014 Member of the Polytechnische Gesellschaft e.V.
2017 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Invitation Fellowship
2019 Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Organometallics