On November 3, I had the pleasure of giving my inaugural lecture, “Physical Organic Chemistry in the Age of Big Data: Predicting Reactivity and Catalysis in Water”, in the Emil-Erlenmeyer Lecture Hall in Garching. I was very happy to introduce our work to the TUM community: both the path that led me to these projects and some of our most recent results, from high-throughput kinetics of carbonyl additions to our new reactivity scale for phosphoryl transfer. Many thanks to the Munich Chemical Society for hosting the lecture and to Roland Fischer for the kind introduction. TUM has written a nice summary here.
What made the day special was the audience. Besides my whole team, my PhD supervisors Armin Ofial and Herbert Mayr made the trip from LMU, on the opposite side of the city, to Garching, which meant a lot to me. It was wonderful to continue the conversations at the reception afterward. I am grateful to TUM, to all my colleagues, and to my mentors, and I am excited to see what our research will bring.
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