03/2016 – 03/2017
Post-Doc, in Dr. Cowley’s group at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain.
Title:"Synthesis of new low-valent Al(I) compounds and their reactivity towards E-H bond activation".

12/2015
PhD in Prof. Müller’s group at the Institute of Chemistry at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany.
Title: "Mechanistic investigations on Lewis acid-catalysed skeletal rearrange­ment reactions of polysilanes and germapolysilanes - Subtle capture of intermediates".

11/2013 - 12.2013
Research stay at international corporation-partner to learn new methodical expertise; Prof. Marschner, TU Graz, Austria.

Conference Contributions

07/2019
Oral Presentation: International Conference on Heteroatom Chemistry, ICHAC, Prague, Czech Republic

08/2017
Poster: Synthesis of Group 13 Element Containing Benzenes, AGIChem, Göttigen, Germany

03/2016
Oral Presentation: Dalton 2016, Warwick, Großbritannien

07/2015
Poster: Internat. Symposium on Inorganic Ring Systems, Regensburg, Germany

06/2015
Poster: Gordon Research Conference, New Hampshire, USA

09/2014
Poster: Wöhler-Conference, Saarbrücken, Germany

09/2014
Poster: North-German PhD Kolloquium, Rostock, Germany

08/2014
Poster: Internat. Symposium on Silicon Chemistry, Berlin, Germany

09/2013
Oral Presentation + Poster: North-German PhD Kolloquium, Bremen, Germany

09/2013
Poster: GDCh Science Forum Chemistry, Darmstadt, Germany

09/2012
Poster: North-German PhD Kolloquium, Walsrode, Germany

09/2012
Poster: Wöhler-Conference, Göttingen, Germany

09/2012
Poster: European Silicon Days, Lyon, France

Publications

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Selective synthesis of germasila-adamantanes through germanium-silicon shift processes
S. Kühn, B. Köstler, C. True, L. Albers, M. Wagner, T. Müller, C. Marschner
Chem. Sci, 2023, 14, 8956-6961.

04/2020
A germaaluminocene
Albers, L.; Tholen, P.; Schmidtmann, M.; Müller, T.
Chem. Sci. 2020, 11, 2982-2986.

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Trialkylsilyl-Substituted Silole and Germole Dianions as Precursors for Unusual Silicon and Germanium Compounds
Dong, Z.; Albers, L.; Müller, T. 
Acc. Chem. Res. 2020, 53, 532-543.

08/2019
A Neutral η5-Aminoborole Complex of Germanium(II)   
Tholen, P.; Dong, Z.; Schmidtmann, M.; Albers, L.; Müller, T.;
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 2018, 57, 13319-13324.
Ein neutraler η5-Aminoborol-Germanium(II)-Komplex        
Angew. Chem. 2018, 130, 13503-13508.

01/2019
A Germacalicene: Synthesis, Structure and Reactivity
Dong, Z.; Albers, L.; Schmidtmann, M.; Müller, T.
Chem. Eur. J. 2019, 25, 1098-1105.

03/2018
Spirocyclic germanes via transannular insertion reactions of vinyl germylenes into Si-Si bonds
Walewska, M.; Baumgartner, J.; Marschner, C.; Albers, L.; Müller, T.
Dalton Trans. 2018, 47, 5985-5996.

10/2016
Alkyne Addition and Insertion Reactions of [(Me₃Si)₃Si]₂Ge ⋅ PMe₃
Walewska, M.; Baumgartner, J.; Marschner, C.; Albers, L.; Müller, T.
Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 18512.

06/2016
Cationic Si-H-Si Bridges in Polysilanes: Their Detection and Targeted Formation in Stable Ion Studies
Albers, L.; Baumgartner, J.; Marschner, C.; Müller T.
Chem. Eur. J. 2016, 22, 7970.

05/2016
Dispersion, Energy-Driven Wagner-Meerwein Rearrangements in Oligosilanes
Albers, L.; Rathjen, S.; Baumgartner, J.; Marschner, C.; Müller, T.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 6886.

04/2015
Wagner Meerwein-Type Rearrangements in Germapolysilanes - A Stable Ion Study, Albers, L.; Meshgi, M. A.; Baumgartner, J.; Marschner, C.; Müller, T.
Organometallics Organometallics 2015, 34, 3756.

06/2014
Formation and properties of a bicyclic silylated digermene, Hlina, J.; Baumgart­ner, J.; Marschner, C.; Albers, L.; Müller, T.; Jouikov, V. V.
Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 9357.

05/2013
Cyclic Disilylated and Digermylated Germylenes, Hlina, J.; Baumgartner, J.; Marsch­ner, C.; Albers, L.; Müller, T. 
Organometallics 2013, 32, 3404.

05/2013
Stereoselective Rearrangements with Chiral Hypervalent Iodine Reagents, Farid, U.; Malmedy, F.; Claveau, R.; Albers, L.; Wirth, T.
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 7018.

Achievements

03/2016 - 02/2017
Newton International Fellowship (Royal Society) One year research fellowship to support the Postdoc time in Dr. Cowley’s group, School of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain.

04/2015
Liebig-Scholarship (GDCh), Travel-Scholarship for young researcher for the participation at the "Gordon Research Seminar and Conference" at the New Holderness School, New Hampshire, USA, in June 2015.

08/2014
Poster Prize at the "International Symposium on Silicon Chemistry" in Berlin.
Titel: "Cationic Rearrangements in Polysilanes - The Surprising Preference for Hydrogen Bridged Silyl Cations"

Since 01/2012
Funding of the Dissertation by the DFG (Germany) and the FWF (Austria) within the ERA-chemistry program.

09/2010 – 12/2010
DAAD Scholarship, Funding of the internship in Cardiff by a scholarship of the project MIX IT 2010.

06/2006
GDCh-Abiturientenpreis 2006, Price for the best high-school graduate in chemistry.