Prof. Dr. Lena Daumann

	Prof. Dr. Lena Daumann Department Chemie Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Butenandtstr. 5-13, Haus D 81377 München Germany
Phone (Office)	+49 (0)89 2180 77486
Phone (Lab)	+49 (0)89 2180 77113
Room-Nr.	D3.075
Email	lena.daumann"at"cup.lmu.de

HONOURS AND AWARDS

LMU Lehrinnovationspreis (2023)
FAIR4Chem Award der NFDI4Chem (2023)
Earl L. Muetterties Memorial Lectureship of the UC Berkeley (2022)
Dozentenpreis of the FCI (2021)
ERC Starting Grant LANTHANOPHOR (2020)
Preis für Gute Lehre der Fachschaft Chemie und Biochemie, LMU (2019)
Preis für gute Lehre Bayern (2019)
Ars legendi-Fakultätenpreis Chemie (2019)
Prinzessin Therese von Bayern-Preis (2019)
Selected as Klaus Tschira Boost Fellow by the German Scholars Organization (2019)
Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPSM) Travel Grant (2018)
Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC) Early Career Researcher Travel Grant (2018)
Nominated for academia-net.org by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation/Robert Bosch Foundation (2018)
Liebig Stipendium, Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (2016, declined, not combinable with W2tt position)
Feodor-Lynen Return Fellowship of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2015-2016)
Springer Theses Award for outstanding PhD Thesis (2014)
The University of Queensland, Dean's Award for Research Higher Degree Excellence (2014)
Feodor-Lynen Research Fellowship of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2013-2015)
Science and Industry Endowment Fund (SIEF) Travel Award for 63rd Lindau meeting (2013)
Australian Academy of Science (AAS) Travel Award to attend SATS in Canberra (2013)
Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) Graduate Student Travel Award (2012)
Plowman Travel Fellowship in Inorganic Chemistry (2011 and 2012)
Top Performing Tutor in School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences (2012 and 2013)
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Travel Grant (2011 and 2012)
Prize 3rd best oral presentation 7th SCMB Research Students Symposium (2011)
UQ Graduate School International Travel Award (2011)
Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC) Student Travel Grant (2011 and 2014)
International Postgraduate Research Scholarship from UQ Graduate School (2010 – 2013)
UQ Centennial Scholarship (2010 – 2013)
Best Chemistry Abitur Prize, Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (2003)

EDUCATION

• 01/2010 – 05/2013 PhD Thesis, Bioinorganic Chemistry, The University of Queensland
• 08/2008 - 01/2009 Diplom Thesis, Chemistry, Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg (GPA 1.0)
• 07/2008 - 08/2008 Final Diplom Examination, Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg
• 10/2003 – 08/2008 Studies of Chemistry, Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Since 2020 W2 professor for Bioinorganic Chemistry with tenure

2016-2020 W2 tenture track professor for Bioinorganic Chemistry

11/2015-03/2016 Postdoctoral Fellow (AvH Return Fellowship), Universität Heidelberg, Germany (Prof. P. Comba)

09/2013-10/2015 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Prof. K. Raymond)

05/2013 – 08/2013 Research Assistant, University of Queensland (Prof. L. Gahan and A/Prof. G. Schenk)

08/2010 – 08/2013 Tutoring of Third Year Laboratory Classes School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland
03/2009 – 09/2009 Research Internship, Prof. B. Schäfer, BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany
08/2007 - 10/2007 Research Internship, Prof. L. Gahan, University of Queensland, Australia
02/2007 – 06/2007 Research Internship, A/Prof. L. Erdinger, Department of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Universität Heidelberg, Germany
08/2006 – 12/2006 Research Internship, Prof. G. Helmchen, Department of Organic Chemistry, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

MEMBERSHIPS

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Current Activities at LMU

Since 2021 elected Member of the Faculty council

Since 2020 Member of the SFB 1309 executive committee

Since 2017 Member Examination Committees Bachelor, Master, Teachers

2016-2020 Leitungskollegium/Member of the Management Board

Review Board Member

2018 - Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes

2020/21 – GDCh-Kommission zur Überarbeitung der Empfehlungen zum Bachelorstudium Chemie an Universitäten

Guest Editor

2018 – Zeitschrift for Allgemeine und Anorganische Chemie

2016 – Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry

2020/21 – "Unterricht Chemie", Friedrich-Verlag, Themenheft „Schülerpublikationen, Interesse und Begabung

Editor

Ongoing: Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry, 4th Edition. Editors in Chief: Ged Parkin, Dermot O’Hare and Karsten Meyer. Responsible for “Bioorganometallics, metallotherapy, metallodiagnostics, medicine and environmental chemistry”

TALKS and PRESENTATIONS

Upcoming presentations

Oxidation of Methanol by Lanthanide-dependent Metalloenzymes, Invited Talk, Rare Earth Research Conference RERC, Philadelphia 2020 *postponed due to Covid-19*
Oxidation of Methanol by Lanthanide-dependent Metalloenzymes, Invited Talk, Gordon Research Conference on Metallocofactors, Rhode Island 2020 *postponed due to Covid-19*
Biochemistry of the lanthanides, Invited Talk, JCF Forum Frühjahrssymposium Köln 2020 *cancelled due to Covid-19*

2020

Louisinana Tech ACS Student Chapter Invited Online Seminar
Angular Momentum f-element webinar series, Invited online seminar
Chemical Research Society of India/Asian Chemical Editorial Society ACES/CRSI Virtual Chemical Biology Symposium, Invited online seminar
University of Sussex Invited Online department seminar
Lanthanides: Biologically relevant, invited Online Seminar ECR Seminar Series, Germany
Lanthanides: Biologically relevant, invited Online Seminar University of Zurich, Switzerland
Europium enzymes and other bioinorganic curisoities, Invited Talk, Uni Gießen, Germany
Heavy metals in Biology: No need to bang your head, University of Innsbruck, Austria

2019

Lehre 2030, Symposium für Innovation in der Hochschullehre, Plenary Discussion, LMU
Lanthanides: Biologically relevant, Invited Talk, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
Lanthanides: Biologically relevant, Invited Talk, Uni Münster, Germany
Lanthanides: Biologically relevant, Invited Talk, ChemMUC event LMU, Germany
Lanthanides: Biologically relevant, Invited Talk, Uni Tübingen, Germany
Lanthanides: Biologically relevant, Talk, Symposium „Highlights aus der Anorganischen Chemie“, Wifo, Aachen, Germany
Our Common Future: Innovative Methoden zum Recycling von Seltenerd-Metallen aus Alltagsgegenständen. Ein Schülerprojekt, Exhibition, selected as Spitzenposter, Wifo, Aachen, Germany
Aus 2 mach 1 – Vernetztes Curriculum Chemie/Biologie, poster, Wifo, Aachen, Germany
Essential and Ubiquitous: Lanthanides in Methanol Dehydrogenases, Invited Talk, ICBIC, Interlaken, Switzerland
A Functional iron(IV)-oxo Model Complex Showing Activity Reminiscent of TET Enzymes, Best poster prize (N. Jonasson), ICBIC, Interlaken, Switzerland
Lanthanides: Biologically relevant, Invited Talk, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany
Lanthanides: Biologically relevant, Talk, XXIX. Tage der Seltenen Erden - Terrae Rarae, Stockholm, Sweden
The surprising bioinorganic chemistry of rare earth elements, Invited Keynote Talk, PVC Conference, Nimwegen, The Netherlands
Our Common Future, invited Exhibition, Robert Bosch Jugendkongress, Stuttgart Germany
Essential and Ubiquitous: The Emergence of Lanthanide Metallobiochemistry, Invited Talk, Universität Leipzig, Germany
My Plan A, Invited Keynote Talk, Mentoring Retreat Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacy, Kloster Frauenwörth, Fraueninsel, Chiemsee, Germany
Lanthanides: Biologically relevant, Talk, SFB749 Meeting, Venice, Italy
Studies of the Redox Cofactor Pyrroloquinoline quinone and its Interaction with Lanthanides(III) and Calcium(II), Poster, SFB749 Meeting, Venice, Italy
Lanthanides: Biologically relevant, Invited Talk, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Synthese eines neuen Liganden, Kopplung an Harz und Bildung eines Eisenkomplexes, Poster, KCT Munich, Germany
The Features of the Europium(III)-containing Methanol Dehydrogenase Investigated Employing its Luminescence Properties, Poster, KCT Munich, Germany

2018

PQQ and its derivatives and their relevance to lanthanide dependent enzymes, Poster, URCUP, Kloster Irsee, Germany
A Fully Synthetic Iron(IV)-oxo Complex as Functional Model for TET Enzymes, Poster, ITRG Kickoff, Munich, Germany
Spectroscopic and mechanistic studies of Fe/α-ketoglutarate dependent oxidases for the elucidation of demethylation mechanisms, Poster, SFB1309 Meeting, Munich, Germany
Lanthanides: Biologically relevant, Invited Talk, New Frontiers of Chemical Science, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
Tips and Tricks Navigating Towards an Academic Career, Invited Talk, Career Steps for Postdocs in Academia and Industry, MPI career day, Munich, Germany
Impact of the Lanthanide contraction on the activity of a Lanthanide-dependent methanol dehydrogenase – Studies of Eu-MDH from the methanotrophic bacterium Methylacidiphilum fumariolicum SolV, Talk, EuroBic, Birmingham, UK
Rückkehr nach Deutschland Chancen und Strategien, Invited Plenary Talk, Netzwerktagung der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Regensburg, Germany
A facile Arsenazo III based assay for monitoring rare earth element depletion from cultivation media of methanotrophic and methylotrophic bacteria, Poster, URCUP, Kloster Irsee, Germany
Iron(IV) Bispidine Complexes as Functional Models for DNA-modifying Enzymes, Poster, KCT Heidelberg, Germany
Investigation of the mechanistic role of rare earth elements in methanol dehydrogenases, Poster, KCT Heidelberg, Germany

2017

The surprising bioinorganic chemistry of rare earth elements, Talk, URCUP, Haus der bayerischen Landwirtschaft Herrsching, Germnay
The impact of different rare earth elements on the mechanism and activity of the XoxF-type methanol dehydrogenase from Methylacidiphilum fumariolicum SolV, Talk, SFB 749 Workshop, Kloster Irsee, Germany
The Surprising Bioinorganic Chemistry of Rare Earth Elements - Spectroscopic Models for the Characterization of REE-dependent Methanol Dehydrogenases, Poster, KCT Potsdam, Germany

Conference Presentations from Diploma Thesis, PhD and Postdoc

2015

Exploring the Luminescence of Octadentate Europium(III) ML2 Complexes, UC Berkeley Undergraduate Poster Symposium, Berkeley, USA
Towards Understanding and Optimizing Energy Transfer Pathways in Luminescent f-Element Complexes, Department of Energy Review, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

2014

Does length really matter? Structure-luminescence relationships in EuIII and TbIII complexes, EuroBIC12, Zürich, Switzerland
Synthesis of Gd(III)-TRENtris-(6-Me)-3,2-HOPO complex: Applications in MRI, 248th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, San Francisco, USA

2013

Spectroscopic and Mechanistic Studies of Dinuclear Metallohydrolases and their Biomimetic Complexes" ICBIC16 (Grenoble)
Dinuclear Metallohydrolases and their Biomimetic Complexes" Gordon Research Conference: Metals in Biology (Ventura)

Dinuclear Metallohydrolases and their Biomimetic Complexes" Gordon Research Seminar: Bioinorganic Chemistry (Ventura)
Dinuclear Metallohydrolases and their Biomimetics" 3rd Brisbane ECR Poster Symposium (Brisbane),

2012

Dinuclear Metallohydrolases and their Biomimetics, 8th Annual SCMB Research Students Symposium, Brisbane, Australia

2011

Organophosphate Pesticides - How to Tune Enzymes and their Mimics for Water Decontamination, 7th SCMB Research Students Symposium, Brisbane, Australia Prize 3rd best oral presentation
Dinuclear Cobalt(II) Complexes as Functional Mimics for Organophosphorus Pesticide Degrading Enzymes, IC11, Perth, Australia
Dinuclear Cobalt(II) Complexes as Functional Mimics for the Organophosphorus Pesticide Degrading Enzyme GpdQ, ICBIC15, Vancouver, Canada

2010

A New GpdQ-biomimetic Cadmium(II) Complex and its Potential Application in Bioremediation, ICCC39, Adelaide, Australia

2007

Uran in Trinkwasserproben im Rhein-Neckar Gebiet, Umweltmedizin in Forschung und Praxis, Bielefeld
Räumliche Verteilung von Uran und anderen Schwermetallen in Trinkwasserproben des Rhein-Neckar Gebietes, Umweltmedizin in Forschung und Praxis, Bielefeld

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