Early Career

2017 ECR group leaders, from left to right: Plumeré, Merten, Tschulik, Sanchez Garcia, Richter, Ebbinghaus, Saraceno, Heyden

Supporting Early Career Researchers at all stages of their careers is one of the major goals of RESOLV!
The ECRs consist of ECR group leaders (e.g. Junior Professors, Emmy Noether group leaders), postdocs and Ph.D. students working within RESOLV.
Early career research group leaders do not stand in the shadow of tenured researchers at RUB but work independently with equal rights. They have access to the full infrastructure and financial means provided by RESOLV and also to the core facilities of the Research Department Interfacial Systems Chemistry (RD IFSC). RESOLV not only supports them scientifically but in many other respects, for example by providing a budget for career coaching and soft skill courses on advanced leadership skills, time, and finance management, to name but a few.

ECR BOARD

The ECR Board is elected annually in the ECR General Assembly. The ECR Board meets four times a year to discuss and organize the RESOLV ECR activities.

SPEAKER OF THE ECR BOARD

Please contact:

Dr. Christian Merten

ECR GROUP LEADERS

Currently, the following group leaders are ECR members:

Area(s)	Person	Research Fields
B	Dr. Ulf-Peter Apfel Ruhr-University Bochum Inorganic Chemistry 1, Bioinorganic Chemistry	Activation and formation of biologically and industrially relevant small molecules.
A	Prof. Dr. Viktoria Däschlein-Gessner Ruhr-Universität Bochum Inorganic Chemistry II	Organometallic Chemistry: Tailoring structures and properties of carbanionic reagents for selective synthetic applications
B	Jun.-Prof. Dr. Müge Kasanmascheff Technische Universität Dortmund Physical Chemistry	Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy, hyperfine spectroscopy, amino acid radicals, metalloproteins, proton-coupled electron transfer ...
A	Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Richter Ruhr-Universität Bochum Chair for Thermodynamic	Accurate thermophysical property measurements and investigation of the phase behavior (gas-to-liquid) taking account of surface phenomena (adsorption,...
B	Dr. Michael Römelt Ruhr-University Bochum Theoretical Chemistry	Molecular simulation of molecules with complex electronic structures, Density Matrix Renormalization Group
B	Prof. Dr. Clara Saraceno Ruhr-Universtität Bochum Photonics and Ultrafast Laser Science	High-power ultrafast solid-state lasers, nonlinear optics, high-power terahertz sources
C	Prof. Dr. Kristina Tschulik Ruhr-Universität Bochum Micro-/Nano-Electrochemistry	Nano-Electrocatalysis, Magneto-Electrochemistry, Electrodeposition
C	Priv.-Doz. Dr. Harun Tüysüz Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung Mülheim an der Ruhr	Design and development of nanostructured multifunctional materials for catalytic applications

New ECR groups established within RESOLV:

Area(s)	Person	Research Fields
B	Dr. Matthias Heyden Now at Arizona State University	Influence of surrounding solution on the dynamics and stability of proteins
A	Dr. Christian Merten Ruhr-Universität Bochum Organic Chemistry II	Intermolecular interactions and chiral induction studied by vibrational CD