Madina Lenz, M.Sc.

Madina Lenz
© Madina Lenz
Madina Lenz
PhD Student
Room 415, OC/BC I
Corrensstraße 36
48149 Münster
T: +49 251 8335320
F: +49 251 8339772
madina.lenz@uni-muenster.de
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  • Curriculum Vitae

    09/2025 - 12/2025 Research stay in the group Prof. Dr. Haritz Sardon (Sardon Lab | Catalysis & Sustainable Polymers), Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain
    since 07/2023 PhD Thesis in the group of Prof. Dr. Frank Glorius, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
    01/2023 - 05/2023 Master Thesis in the group of Prof. Dr. Frank Glorius, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
    05/2022 – 10/2022 Research stay in the group Prof. Dr. Mark Lautens, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
    04/2021 - 05/2023 MSc studies of Chemistry, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
    01/2021 - 03/2021 Research Internship at Fraunhofer-Institut IVV, Freising, Germany
    10/2017 – 09/2020 BSc studies of Chemistry, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster; Bachelor thesis in group of Prof. Dr. Armido Studer
    08/2008 – 06/2017 Final School Examination (Abitur, A-level), Carl-Fuhlrott-Gymnasium Wuppertal, Germany

  • Awards and Scholarships

    2026 Best Poster Award at Green IUPAC 2026, 11th IUPAC International Confrence on Green Chemistry, Lisbon, Portugal
    2025 Best Poster Award at  26th Lakeland Symosium 2025, Grasmere, United Kingdom
    2025 Research scholarship for PhD candidates by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
    07/2024 „Best Poster in BOS2024“ Award at BOS 2024 - Balticum Organicum Syntheticum 2024, Riga, Latvia
    05/2022 - 10/2022 PROMOS Scholarship from DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst e.V.)
    since 10/2021 Deutschlandstipendium, ProTalent (Almuth Klemer-Scholarship for Organic Chemistry), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
    06/2017 MINT-EC Certificate with distinction

  • Publications

     J. E. Erchinger, M. Lenz, P. Mukherjee, Y.-B. Li, A. Suresh, C. G. Daniliuc, O. Gutierrez,* F Glorius,*
    Mechanistic insights into the regiodivergent insertion of bicyclo[1.1.0]butanes towards carbocycle-tethered N-heteroarenes,
    Chem. Sci. 2025, 16, 4006-4013.

    F.-P. Wu, M. Lenz, A. Suresh,§ A. R. Gogoi,§ J. L. Tyler, C. G. Daniliuc, O. Gutierrez,* F. Glorius*,
    Nitrogen-to-functionalized carbon atom transmutation of pyridine,
    Chem. Sci. 2024, 15, 15205-15211.
    § These authors contributed equally.

    B. Mirabi, S. Li, J.Ching, M. Lenz, S. M. Popovic, M. Lautens,*
    Stereodivergency in Copper-Catalyzed Borylative Difunctionalizations: The Impact of Boron Coordination,
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202411156.

    H. Wang,§ J. E. Erchinger,§ M. Lenz,§ S. Dutta, C. G. Daniliuc, F. Glorius,
    syn-Selective Difunctionalization of Bicyclobutanes Enabled by Photoredox-Mediated C–S σ-Bond Scission,
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 23771-23780.
    § These authors contributed equally

    C. Wolf, A. Behrens, C. Brungs, E. D. Mende, M. Lenz, P. C. Piechutta, C. Roblick, U. Karst,*
    Mobility-resolved broadband dissociation and parallel reaction monitoring for laser desorption/ionization-mass spectrometry - Tattoo pigment identification supported by trapped ion mobility spectrometry,
    Analytica Chimica Acta 2023, 1242, 340796.

    J. Häfliger, O. O. Sokolova, M. Lenz, C. G. Daniliuc, R. Gilmour,*
    Stereocontrolled Synthesis of Fluorinated Isochromans via Iodine(I)/Iodine(III) Catalysis,
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202205277.