Dr. Sebastian B. Beil (he/him/his)
Research Group Leader in Electrochemical Synthesis and Photocatalysis
email: sebastian.beil@cec.mpg.de
phone: +49 208 306 3135
ORCID: 0000-0003-0373-3843
ResearcherID: W-5465-2019
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Sebastian was born in Kiel, Germany, where he studied Chemistry. His Bachelor’s Thesis was obtained at the University of Stockholm with Berit Olofsson (on hypervalent iodine chemistry) and Master’s Thesis with Anne Staubitz in Kiel (on conductive polymers). For his PhD he moved to Mainz and graduated in 2019 under the supervision of Siegfried R. Waldvogel on electroorganic transformations. As an internship student, he spent time with Phil S. Baran at Scripps Research in La Jolla to investigate highly reducing electrochemical conversions. After a first postdoc in the group of Max von Delius in Ulm working on synthetic carbon allotropes, he moved to Princeton University to work in the group of David MacMillan to develop new photoredox transformations. From 2021 to 2024, Sebastian accepted a position as assistant professor at the University of Groningen and since March 2024 he holds a permanent research group leader position at the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion.
Career
since 2024
Member of the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE)
University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Faculty for Chemistry, Essen, Germany
since 2024
Research Group Leader (permanent)
Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mühlheim an der Ruhr, Germany
2021-2024
Assistant Professor (with Tenure Track)
University of Groningen, Stratingh Institute for Chemistry
2020-2021
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Princeton University, Merck Center for Catalysis
2019-2020
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Ulm University, Institute of Organic Chemistry
2015-2019
PhD in Chemistry
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Prof. Dr. Siegfried R. Waldvogel
Novel Studies on Molybdenum(V) Reagents (PhD Thesis, summa cum laude)
Internship @ Scripps Research with Prof. Dr. Phil S. Baran
2010-2015
B. Sc. and M. Sc. in Chemistry
Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel
Towards the Syntheses of Dinucleophiles on Aromatic Cycles (Master’s Thesis)
Internship @ Stockholm University with Prof. Dr. Berit Olofsson
Design and Syntheses of Unsymmetrical Diaryliodonium Salts for Novel Polymerization Reactions (Bachelor’s Thesis)
Awards and
Fellowships
2024 – NEONHET in collaboration with Fraunhofer IGB (co-PI, 4 years)
2023 – University Teaching Qualification (UTQ/BKO)
2023 – NWO VENI Talent Programme (PI, 3 years)
2022 – ARC CBBC – Smart Coatings (PI, 4 years)
2022 – FSE Research Grant (PI, 9 month)
2020 – Postdoctoral Fellowship by the German National Academy of Science Leopoldina
2020 – PhD Award by the Boehringer Ingelheim-Stiftung
2016 – Kekulé-Fellowship by the German Chemical Industry Association (VCI)
2016 – Fellowship by the Graduate School of Excellence “MAterials science IN MainZ” (MAINZ)
2015 – Holsteiner Study Award 2015/2016 of the CAU Kiel
2014 – Department of Chemistry of the CAU Kiel: best B.Sc. Chem. degree 2013/2014
2013 – Fellowship by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
2012 – Fellowship by the August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann-Stiftung (German Chemical Society, Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, GDCh)
Memberships
2022 – FSE Goes Green, University of Groningen
2021 – Member of the American Chemical Society (ACS)
2021 – Member of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (Koninklijke Nederlandse Chemische Vereniging, KNCV)
2021 – Member of the Advanced Research Center Chemical Building Block Consortium (ARC CBBC)
2017 – Juniormember of the Gutenberg-Akademie (JGU Mainz).
2017 – Member of the Executive Committee of the Gutenberg Council for Young Researchers (Gutenberg Nachwuchskolleg, GNK, JGU Mainz).
2016 – Fellowship by the Graduate School of Excellence “MAterials science IN MainZ” (MAINZ)
2012 – Member of the German Chemical Society (GDCh)
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