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I’m a doctoral student working at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion and RWTH Aachen University. My research interest lies in methodology development in solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and apply them to study heterogeneous catalysts as well as biological systems.

My research focuses on utilizing the CT-DRENAR method to determine effective dipolar couplings and interatomic distances in solid-state samples. The systems I study include $^{31}$P–$^{31}$P, $^{19}$F–$^{19}$F, and $^{31}$P–$^{29}$Si, with applications in supported ionic liquid phases (SILP) and Ru/polyphosphine catalytic systems. I investigate the influence of chemical-shift tensor orientations on experimental results, employing Monte Carlo simulations to evaluate the method’s robustness, with a particular emphasis on its performance under fast magic-angle spinning (MAS) conditions. Furthermore, I utilize SIMPSON to fit experimental dephasing curves and explore methodologies for defining and statistically evaluating the fitting result and especially the error.

I enjoy developing software tools used for my studies. I have a Python toolbox for numerical spin dynamics simulations and parameter optimization using SIMPSON. The toolbox provides fine control over simulation processes and can be run on both personal computers and high-performance computing clusters. Check it out on on GitHub!

I have also built an open-sourced rotor management system with a web-interface. Currently it relies on the open-source electronic lab notebook platformelectronic lab notebook platform eLabFTW, but should be possible to transfer to other backend databases (including a local one). Check it out on on GitHub!

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If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me by email!