ABOUT ME

Dr. Michael Haas graduated in chemistry at Graz University of Technology (Austria) in 2012 and received his Ph.D. in 2015 under the supervision of Prof. H. Stueger. From 2017-2018 he was working as a postdoctoral fellow at the Monash University in the group of Prof. C. Jones (Australia). Currently he started his independentcareer at Graz University of Technology (Austria). His research interests cover the synthesis of novel low-valent Group 14 compounds and the design of new acyl Group 14 photoinitiators.

EDUCATION

PhD Program

of Technical Chemistry PhD Thesis at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry (TU Graz, Austria): "Cyclic Silenes and Germenes"

January 2013 - December 2015

Graduation with Honor

Master Thesis

at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry (TU Graz, Austria): "Mechanistic Investigations of the Bond Formation between Group (VIII) Elements and Chlorosilanes"

November 2011 - November 2012

Master Program

of Chemistry at the TU Graz, Austria

2010 - 2012

Bachelor Program

of Chemistry at the TU Graz, Austria

2006 - 2010

KEY SKILLS

WORK EXPERIENCE

Project Leader

of the FWF-project "Aldol Reaction of the Heavier Carbon Homologues"

April 2019 - Present

Postdoctoral fellow

as a Schrödinger Scholar of the FWF in the return phase at the TU Graz, Austria

October 2018 - March 2019

Postdoctoral fellow

as a Schrödinger Scholar of the FWF in the group of Prof. Dr. C. Jones at the University of Monash, Australia. "Synthesis of Homocyclic Silylenes as Metal-Free Catalysts"

September 2017 - September 2018

Scientific Researcher

at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry

February 2016 - September 2017