since 2017: Senior Lecturer, NUI Galway since 2007: Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry, NUI Galway 2004: Visiting Professor, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the University of Vienna, Austria 2002 - 2006: Privatdozent, University of Dortmund, Germany 2002: Habilitation, University of Dortmund, Germany 1995 - 1997: Postdoctoral fellow, McGill University, Montréal 1995: Dr. rer. nat. (PhD), University of Dortmund, Germany 1992: Dipl.-Chem, University of Dortmund, Germany

My research interests comprise Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Solid State Chemistry. Research activities in the area of Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry are centered on the synthesis and study of anticancer metallodrugs. A specific focus is on the development of new Pt(IV) anticancer pro-drugs with reduced side effects, metal complexes with receptor-specific carriers for target-delivery and selective accumulation into cancer tissue and on metal complexes that exhibit anticancer activity by irreversibly cleaving the tumour cell DNA. My research activities in the field of solid state chemistry of pharmaceuticals are aimed at improving the bioavailability and thus the therapeutic efficacy of poorly soluble drugs, including antibiotics, via co-amorphisation, co-crystallisation, control of crystal size and habit and polymorph control.

Inorganic Chemistry Bioinorganic Chemistry Medicinal Chemistry X-ray Crystallography