Dominik Munz

7/2018 Habilitand
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Chair of Inorganic and General Chemistry (K. Meyer).

12/2016 Liebig Fellow of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie FCI
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Chair of Inorganic and General Chemistry (K. Meyer).                                                                                 

6/2016 – 11/2016 Independent Reasearch Group Leader
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Chair of Inorganic and General Chemistry (K. Meyer).   

6/2014 – 05/2016 Postdoctoral Studies
University of California, San Diego, Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, CA, USA.
Multidentate CAAC ligands and organic radicals (PI: G. Bertrand).

10/2013 – 05/2014 Postdoctoral Studies
University of Virginia, Homogeneous Molecular and Single-Site Catalysis, Charlottesville, VA, USA. Center for Catalytic Hydrocarbon Functionalization CCHF.
Oxidation of hydrocarbons with single-site catalysts and main group oxidants (PI: T. B. Gunnoe).

05/2013 – 09/2013 Postdoctoral Studies
TU Dresden, Physical Organic Chemistry, Dresden, Germany.
Alkane activation and functionalization – mechanism, catalyst development, and DFT-calculations (PI: T. Strassner).

04/2009 – 04/2013 Dr. rer. nat. in Chemistry (summa cum laude)
TU Dresden, Physical Organic Chemistry, Dresden, Germany.
Alkane activation and functionalization – mechanism, catalyst development, and DFT-calculations (PI: Prof. T. Strassner).

10/2007 – 03/2009 Diploma in Chemistry (with highest distinction)
TU Dresden, Physical Organic Chemistry, Dresden, Germany.
Experimental and theoretical studies on transition metal catalyzed oxidations of hydrocarbons (PI: Prof. T. Strassner).

07/2007 – 09/2007 Internship in Organic Synthesis
ENSC Lille, Organic Chemistry, France (PI: P. Grandclaudon).

08/2006 – 06/2007 Graduate Studies Chemical Engineering
ENSC Rennes, Rennes, France.

10/2003 – 07/2006 Undergraduate Studies Chemistry
TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany.

10/2002 – 08/2003 Civil Service
Paramedic, Bavarian Red Cross, Augsburg, Germany.

06/2002 High School Graduation “Abitur”
Augsburg, Germany

• Poster Award (A. Grünwald) at the EICC-5 in Moscow by MDPI, 2019.
• Max-Buchner Fellowship of the DECHEMA (German Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology), 2019.
• Fulbright-Cotrell Award, 2019.
• Grant by the Boehringer-Ingelheim Foundation, 2019.
• Top Reviewer for Organometallics, 2018.
• Poster Award (A. Grünwald) at the ACS Symposium in Heidelberg, 2018.
• Poster Award by Inorganic Chemistry, Niedersächsisches Katalysesymposium (NIKAS) 2018, Göttingen.
• Top Reviewer (4^th) for Dalton Trans. according to Publons, 2018.
• Grant by the Dr. Hertha und Helmut Schmauser-Stiftung, 2018.
• Grant by the Emerging Talents Initiative ETI, 2017.
• Liebig Habilitation Fellowship of the Fonds der chemischen Industrie (FCI), 12/2016 – 12/2019.
• Return Fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for postdoctoral studies with K. Meyer, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 06/2016 – 12/2016.
• Postdoctoral Fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for postdoctoral studies with Prof. G. Bertrand, University of California, San Diego, 06/2014 – 05/2016.
• Travel Grant of the Organic Reactions Catalysis Society (ORCS) for the ORCS conference in Tucson, AZ, USA, 2014.
• Doctoral Fellowship of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes), 07/2010 – 12/2012.
• Travel Grant of the German Chemical Society (GDCh), Section Sustainable Chemistry for the Gordon Research Conference: Green Chemistry, Lucca (Barga), Italy, 2012.
• Travel Grant of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for the ACS National Spring Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA, 2012.
• Travel Grant of the Karl-Ziegler-Foundation for the EuCheMS congress in Nürnberg, Germany, 2010.
• French-German double diploma program 2006–2008.
• German Board of European Students of Technology (BEST) ambassador to the summer course meeting in Budapest, Hungary, 2006.

• Koordinationschemie-Treffen 2020 (KCT), March 2020, Freiburg (two posters).
• Metal-Carbene Consortium, February 2020, San Antonio, USA «About Palladium Terminal Imidos in Catalysis» (invited presentation).
• University of the Saarland, September 2019, Saarbrücken, Germany «About Multiple Bonds of Late Transition Metals and Carbene Building Blocks for Organic Materials» (invited presentation).
• OMCOS 20 – IUPAC International Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry Directed Towards Organic Synthesis, July 2019, Heidelberg, Germany (poster).
• Heron8 – Conference on Reactive Intermediates and Unusual Molecules, June 2019, Uluru, Australia (invited presentation).
• 22. Steinheimer Gespräche, May 2019, Mainz. «Charge Separation in Double Bonds» (presentation).
• Chemiedozententagung, March 2019, Koblenz. «Hinter der Oxo-Mauer: d⁸ konfigurierte terminale Imide des Palladiums» (presentation).
• 15. Koordinationschemikertagung  KCT 2019, March 2019, Munich. «Activation of Strong Bonds by Oxidative Addition» (A. Grünwald, presentation & poster).
• GDCh Campus Event, October 2018, Erlangen. «Innovation in Catalysis Through Computational Design» (invited presentation).
• Highlight by www.chemistryviews.org on our work on multiple bonded catalysts.
• Wöhler Tagung 2018, September 2018, Regensburg. «Small Molecule Activation by A Palladium Terminal Imido» (presentation).
  
• Niedersächsisches Katalysesymposium (NIKAS) 2018, September 2018, Göttingen (poster).
• International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry ICOMC, July 2018, Firenze «A Palladium Terminal Imido for Catalysis with Strong Bonds» (invited presentation).
• Highlight by www.sciencetrends.com on our work on multiple bonded catalysts, June 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31988/SciTrends.19954
• Inorganic Chemistry Seminar, June 2018, Erlangen «From Terminal Metal Imides and Oxides to Organic Radicals» (invited presentation).
  
• 32nd Molecular Modelling Workshop (MMWS), March 2018, Erlangen «How to Tame a Terminal Palladium Oxo» (presentation).
• Liebig Fellowship Regional Meeting, March 2018, Regensburg «From Terminal Metal Imides and Oxides» (invited presentation).
• Daimler-Benz Stiftung, January 2018, Ladenburg «Terminal Imid- und Phosphidkomplexe zur Veredelung von Kohlenwasserstoffen» (invited presentation).
• TU Munich, Inorganic Chemistry Seminar, January 2018, Munich «CAAC Ligands in Coordination Chemistry – from Theory to the Lab Bench» (invited presentation).
• ICCE Inorganic Chemistry Conference Erlangen, September 2017, Erlangen «How to Tame a Terminal Palladium Oxo» (invited presentation).
• 31st Molecular Modelling Workshop (MMWS), March 2017, Erlangen «How to Tame a Terminal Palladium Oxo» (poster).
• ICCE Inorganic Chemistry Conference Erlangen, September 2016, Erlangen «Donor Functionalized Cyclic(alkyl)(amino)carbenes (CAACs)» (presentation).
• ACS National Meeting, Spring 2016, San Diego, CA, USA, 2016 «Towards the Stabilization of Late Transition Oxo and Imido Complexes by Cyclic(alkyl)(amino)carbenes (CAACs)» (presentation).
• ORCS – Organic Reactions Catalysis Society, Tucson, AZ, USA, 2014 «Catalytic Hydrocarbon Oxidation» (presentation).
• ACS National Meeting, Spring 2014, Dallas, TX, USA, 2014 «Catalytic Hydrocarbon Oxidation» (presentation).
• ACS National Meeting, Spring 2012, San Diego, CA, USA, 2012 «Propane Functionalization with Palladium Biscarbene Complexes» (presentation).
• ICOMC – International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, Lisbon, Portugal, 2012 (poster).
• Gordon Research Conference and Seminar (GRC and GRS) Green Chemistry, Lucca, Italy, 2012 (poster).
• HFMC – Heidelberg Forum of Molecular Catalysis, Heidelberg, Germany, 2011 (poster).
• MolMod – Modeling of Molecular Properties, Heidelberg, Germany, 2011 (poster).
• EuCheMS Congress, Nuremberg, Germany, 2010 (poster).
• Kainz, C. de Salas, S. Wesselbaum, H. Büttner, G. Wienhöfer, D. Munz, F. Stempfle, H. Kayser. Nachrichten aus der Chemie (2012), 60, 1045–1046 (report).