About Lilian
I was born in 1995 and grew up in a small village close to Hamburg. After finishing my Abitur in 2013, I moved to Rostock to study chemistry. In 2022, I obtained my PhD at the same University under the supervision of Axel Schulz. My research focused on the usage of phosphorus-based species for small-molecule activation.
Afterwards, I spent a few months in the research group of Matthias Tamm at the Technical University in Braunschweig investigating main-group element based carbene species. In the fall of 2022, I joined the group of Jose Goicoechea at the University of Oxford, where I investigated heavier main group element multiple bond systems, funded by a Leopoldina fellowship. In 2024, I joined the group of Christian Müller at the Free University Berlin as a Postdoctoral Researcher to work on heteroatomic ring systems consisting of P, As, N and C and on low-valent P and As chemistry.
In June 2025, I started my independent research group at the same university funded by a Liebig scholarship of the Fond der Chemischen Industrie. From October 2025, my group will move to the University of Münster, where I will work as a tenure-track Junior Professor. My research will focus on molecular main-group chemistry and catalysis.
In my chemistry-free time I love sports (basketball, running, sailing) and cooking/baking.
| 2025 | Liebig Fellowship of German Chemical Industry Fund (Fonds der Chemischen Industrie, FCI) |
| 2024 | Student teaching award from medical students at the University of Rostock for seminar “chemistry for medical students” |
| 2024 | CAS Future Leaders Programme |
| 2023 | Wöhler PhD Prize for Inorganic Chemistry from the Wöhler-Vereinigung at GDCh |
| 2022 | Leopoldina Postdoc Scholarship from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina |
| 2022 | Participation at 71st Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany |
| 2019, -21 | First Prizes at Science Slams: Weitblick Science Slam Münster, Germany; Roxy Science Slam Ulm, Germany |
| 2019 | Kekulé doctoral scholarship of German Chemical Industry Fund (Fonds der Chemischen Industrie, FCI) |
| 2019 | Scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) for PhD studies |
| 2014 | Scholarships from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) for B.Sc./M.Sc. studies |
| 2013 | GDCh award for “Outstanding Achievements in Chemistry at High School” |