Curriculum Vitae of PD Dr. Michael Karnahl

Current position

since 04/2021	Akademischer Oberrat and independent Research Group Leader at the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at the Technische Universität Braunschweig

Scientific career

11/2024
Habilitation and Venia Legendi for "Photochemistry"
at the Technische Universität Braunschweig
Mentor: Prof. Matthias Tamm
Topic: Heteroleptic Copper(I) Complexes: Design Strategies, Excited State Properties and Photocatalytic Applications

07/2020 - 03/2021
Akademischer Oberrat and independent Research Group Leader
at the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart

06/2014 - 06/2020
Akademischer Rat and independent Research Group Leader
at the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart

since 06/2018
Project leader within the Priority Program “Light Controlled Reactivity of Metal Complexes” (SPP 2102)

2015 - 2016
Member of the COST Action CM1202 “Perspect-H2O“ (supramolecular photocatalytic water splitting, workgroup 1 - Synthesis and Photocatalysis)

2012 - 2014
Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis at the University of Rostock (LIKAT Rostock) in the group of Prof. Matthias Beller
Topic: Light2Hydrogen: Energy for the Future - Photocatalytic Splitting of Water to Hydrogen.

2010 - 2012
PostDoc at the Department of Photochemistry and Molecular Science, Uppsala University, Sweden, Supervisor: Prof. Sascha Ott
Topic: Hydrogen Production and Activation by Functional Bioinorganic Model Complexes of the [FeFe] Hydrogenase Active Site

02/2010
Dissertation (Disputation) as Dr. rer. nat. (doctor rerum naturalium, summa cum laude) at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany
Topic: Synthesis and Characterization of Supramolecular Photocatalysts

2006 - 2010
Ph.D. Studies at the Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany,
Supervisors: Prof. Sven Rau and Prof. Matthias Westerhausen

09/2006
Diploma Thesis (M.Sc) in Chemistry (very excellent) at the Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Friedrich-Schiller- University Jena
Supervisiors: Prof. Sven Rau and Prof. Dirk Walther
Topic: Synthesis and Characterization of Oligopyridophenazine Complexes

2001 - 2005
Study of Chemistry (Diploma) at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Faculty of Chemical and Earth Sciences, Germany

Grants and Awards
2020
Research Scholarship from the Adolf and Gertrud Schnürle Foundation (Baden-Württemberg, Germany)

2015
Starting grant for habilitation candidates of the University of Stuttgart (Germany)

2015
DAAD scholarship, travel grant of the German Academic Exchange Service for the participation at the 1^st International Solar Fuels Conference (ISF-1), Uppsala, Sweden

2014
FCI scholarship, grant for young university lectures by the Chemical Industry Fund (FCI)

2014
Alexander von Humboldt travel fellowship for the participation at the 5^th Brazilian- German Frontiers of Science and Technology Symposium (BRAGFOST), Recife, Brazil

2013
EnMatII poster prize by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

2012
Awardee of a Merit scholarship (Bourses d'excellence pour étudiants étrangers du ministère de l'Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport du Québec, Canada)

2010-2012
Wenner-Gren Stiftelserna (SWGC) PostDoc fellowship (2 years)

2007
Recipient of a travel fellowship by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Last change: 01 Dec, 2024