Vita

Matthias studied chemistry at Bonn University and obtained his PhD in 2011 from the same university under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Andreas Gansäuer. The studies were supported by a Chemiefonds scholarship. He joined in 2012 the group of Prof. Dr. Bas de Bruin at the University of Amsterdam to conduct his postdoctoral studies, for which he obtained a Feodor-Lynen scholarship of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation. He started his independent research at Utrecht university at the Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science before he joined Göttingen University in 2017.