PERSONAL:

 

Date of birth:    29.01.1982

Place of birth:   Roskilde

E-mail:               marnie@kemi.dtu.dk or DrMartinNielsen@gmail.com or dr@nielsen.li

Phone:               +45 2465 1045

 

EDUCATION:

 

2009:                 Ph.D. in chemistry                       (Prof. Karl Anker Jørgensen)

2007:                 M.Sc. in medicinal chemistry     (Prof. Karl Anker Jørgensen)      

 

POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS:

 

2013-2014:        Harvard University, USA             (Prof. Theodore A. Betley)

2013-2013:        DTU, Denmark                             (Assoc. Prof. Anders Riisager)

2010-2013:        LIKAT, Germany                           (Prof. Matthias Beller)

2009-2010:        Aarhus University, Denmark      (Prof. Karl Anker Jørgensen)

 

AWARDS:

 

2013:                 Marie Curie FP7 International Outgoing Fellowship (IOF)

2012:                 Sapere Aude: DFF-Research Talent

2012:                 The Danish Council for Independent Research, Technology and Production Sciences (FTP) Fellowship

2010:                 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship

 

TEACHING AND MENTORING EXPERIENCE:

 

2006-today:       Mentoring in total more than 30 undergraduates and graduates and postdocs at Aarhus University and LIKAT.

2004-2009:        Teaching at all university levels. Includes:

                          Chemistry level-up for pre-undergraduates. Responsible for the examinations.

                          Fundamental inorganic chemistry (theoretical)

                          Fundamental organic chemistry (both theoretical and practical)

                          Advanced organic chemistry (both theoretical and practical)

 

SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS:

 

Press conferences:

 

                          1. First-of-its kind solution to the challenge of storing hydrogen fuel

                          246th ACS National Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, United States, September 8-12, 2013

 

Lectures:

                          7. Towards sustainable energy - Hydrogen production from biomass

246th ACS National Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, United States, September 8-12, 2013

 

6. Towards a hydrogen-based economy - Low-temperature hydrogen production from aqueous methanol

246th ACS National Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, United States, September 8-12, 2013

 

5. Towards sustainable energy using homogeneous catalysis

Danish Chemical Society - Annual Meeting

Odense, Denmark, June 6, 2013

 

4. Hydrogen production from biorelevant alcohols

XXV International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (ICOMC 2012), Lisbon, Portugal, September 2-7, 2012.

 

3. Efficient hydrogen generation from (bio)ethanol

243rd ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, United States, March 25-29, 2012.

 

2. Transformation of biomass to hydrogen and bulk chemicals

45. Jahrestreffen Deutscher Katalytiker, Weimar, Germany, March 14-16, 2012.

 

1. Asymmetric organocatalytic heteroatomic α- and β-functionalizations of α,β-unsaturated electrophiles

235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, United States, April 6-10, 2008.

 

Posters:

 

3. Efficient hydrogen generation from alcohols

Internation Symposium on Relations between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis XV (ISHHC XV), Berlin, September 11-16, 2011.

 

2. Organocatalytic vinylation and alkynylation of conjugated carbonyl compounds

10th Tetrahedron Symposium, Paris, France, June 23-26, 2009.

1. Two diverse approaches for asymmetric organocatalytic β-hydroxylation of α,β-unsaturated electrophiles

235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, United States, April 6-10, 2008.