Curriculum Vitae
Last name: Dononelli
First name: Wilke
Date of birth: 27.02.1987
Gender: male
Nationality: German/Dutch
Family: married, one child (born in October 2019 and July 2023)
Work experience
08.-10.2023 Parental Leave
2022 Listenplatzierung/List placement for Professorship “Theoretical Chemistry” at CAU Kiel.
2021 Lehrauftrag/ Teaching allowance of Faculty for Chemistry and Biology
05.2020- Early Career Investigator, MAPEX Center for Materials and Processes, Bremen University
spring 2020 Parental Leave
2014-2018 PhD-student, Theoretical Chemistry, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
2018-2020 PostDoc, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University
2011-2017 Teacher for “Mathematics in electrical engineering” at the EWE Energiecampus Oldenburg
2010-2014 Scientific tutor at the “Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg”
2008-2010 Student tutor at the “Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg”
2006-2007 Civilian service at the youth welfare office of the county Leer
Education
2014-2018 PhD student (Theoretical Chemistry) in the research training group „Nano energy research“ at the “Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg” (Defense: 08.2019 “summa cum laude”)
2010-2014 Master of Science in Chemistry at the “Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg” (M.Sc.)
2007-2010 Bachelor of Science in chemistry and mathematics at the “Carl von Ossietzky
Universität Oldenburg” (B.Sc.)
2006 Teletta Groß Gymnasium Leer, higher education entrance qualification
Meetings and conferences
18.09.2023 Quantentage/Quantumdays Bremen (talk)
05.09.2023 XRay diffraction workshop, Bremen (talk)
08.-10.03.2023 DESY Nanolab Retreat, Bad Bevesen (invited talk)
25.10.2022 Bremen-Shenzhen CMS Seminar (invited talk)
16-21.10.2022 Conference on Analysis of Diffraction Data in Real Space, Grenoble (talk)
18-22.09.2022 Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry, Heidelberg (Poster)
15-16-09.2022 Machine Learning in Engineering Conference, Hamburg (invited talk)
09-10.06.2022 Workshop – Functional Oxides: synthesis, analysis and characterization, Bremen (talk)
30.05.-01.06.2022 Symposium of the Research Group NaGoCat, Soderstorf (invited talk)
22.07.2021 ECR workshop: building bridges in science (invited talk)
25.11.2020 Early Career Investigator workshop: Science meets Industry. (organizing
committee, host and moderator)
31.08.-02.09.2020 SpaceMat2020 – Materials for Space Exploration
22.11.2019 iMAT (Integrated Materials Research) Seminar, Aarhus (talk)
27.03. – 29.03.2019 Computational Molecular Science, Warwick (poster)
24.06. – 28.06.2018 International Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Catalysis –ICTAC, Los Angeles (talk)
16.04. – 18.04.2018 Faraday Discussion: Designing Nanoparticles for Catalysis, London (talk and expert in podium discussion)
11.03. – 16.03.2018 DPG Frühjahrstagung (spring meeting) 2017, Berlin (invitation to Focussession: Frontiers in electronic structure theory (talk))
18.09. – 19.09.2017 4th International Conference on Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Dublin
(invited talk)
27.08. – 01.09.2017 11th Triennial Congress of the World Association of Theoretical and
Computational Chemists, Munich (poster)
04.06. – 19.06.2017 25th North American Catalysis Society Meeting, Denver (poster)
11.04. – 13.04.2017 Faraday Joint Interest Group Conference, Warwick (talk)
19.03. – 24.03.2017 DPG Frühjahrstagung (spring meeting) 2017, Dresden (talk)
26.09. – 29.09.2016 Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry, Bochum (poster)
12.09. – 14.09.2016 Summer school for “Nano- and Energyresearch”, Berlin (talk)
28.08. – 02.09.2016 Theory and Applications in Computational Chemistry, Seattle (talk)
07.07.2016 Winterfeld-Price selection of the GDCH, Hannover (talk)
04.04. – 06.04.2016 Faraday Discussion: Designing New Heterogeneous Catalysts, London
(poster and invitation to present at the lightning session)
06.03. – 11.03.2016 DPG Frühjahrstagung (spring meeting) 2016, Regensburg (talk)
20.09. – 24.09.2015 Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry, Potsdam (poster)
20.04. – 24.04.2015 CECAM-Workshop: Perspectives of many- particle methods: Total energy,
spectroscopy and time-dependent dynamics, Bremen (poster)
15.03. – 20.03.2015 DPG Frühjahrstagung (spring meeting) 2015, Berlin (talk)
25.08. – 05.09.2014 Summer school “Modern Computational Science”, Oldenburg
09.05. – 11.05.2013 Bunsentagung, Karlsruhe (poster)
25.02.2013 HPC-Workshop of the Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg (talk)
05.03. – 09.03.2012 HLRS workshop “Fortran for Scientific Computing”, Stuttgart
13.03. – 18.03.2011 DPG Frühjahrstagung (spring meeting) 2011, Dresden (talk)
26.09. – 30.09.2010 Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry, Münster (poster)
09.08. – 20.08.2010 Summer school “Modern Computational Science”, Oldenburg
Awards and scholarships
2020 Election as ECI (Early Career Investigator) member of the MAPEX Center
2019 Travel award of the Faraday Division of the of the Royal Society of
Chemistry for participation at the CMS in Warwick
2018 Travel grant of the Materials Chemistry Division of the Royal Society of
Chemistry for participation at the Faraday Discussion in London
2017 Nomination for teaching award “Preis der Lehre” at Carl von Ossietzky University
Oldenburg
2017 Congress grant “Kongressstipendium” of the Universitätsgesellschaft Oldenburg e.V
2017 Student bursary of the Surface Reactivity and Catalysis Group of the Royal Society of
Chemistry for participation at the NAM25 in Denver (USA)
2016/2017 Oltech travel grant for participation at the NAM25 in Denver (USA)
2016 Travel grant of the FAZIT Stiftung for traveling to conferences in the USA
(TACC2016 Seattle)
2016 Wolfgang-Schulenberg travel grant for participation at international conferences
(Faraday Discussion, London)
2014-2017 „Georg-Lichtenberg“ scholarship of research training group „Nano energy research“ PhD grant for covering costs of living
2012-2014 „MINT Science Excellent“ scholarship of the Manfred Lautenschläger Stiftung
2010 Poster award at the „Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry“ in Münster
2009-2010 Scholarship for covering tuition fees at the “Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg”
2016/17/18 Wilhelm und Else Heraeus travel grant (multiple times) for participation at DPG
Spring Meetings and the WATOC 2017 in Munich
Reviewing Activities
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, ACS Catalysis, ACS applied materials & interfaces, The Journal of Chemical Physics, International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, Topics in Catalysis
Patents
DE 102012016476 A1
Teaching experience
2022- Lecturer of „Chemical Data Analyzes and Plotting“
2022 „Lehrauftrag“ of the chemistry department
2021- Lecturer of “Computational Materials Science” for Master and PhD students
2018- Supervision of PhD projects
2018 Development and implementation of new teaching concept: “Lernwerkstatt Chemie”
2016-2018 Lecturer of “Theoretical and Mathematical Basics of Chemistry” (lecture for first semester students (250 students) for first half of the semester)
2014-2018 Teacher for “Theoretical foundations of chemistry” (Exercise class with 200 students)
2011-2018 Supervision of more than 10 bachelor and master thesis
2008-2014 Student Tutor for undergraduate students
Languages
German(native), English(excellent), Dutch(intermediate), Danish(beginner)
Programming knowledge
Operating systems: Windows, Mac OS and Linux OS
Quantum chemistry program packages: ASE, Crystal, Diamond, Gaussian, GPAW, Molpro, Mopac, MOLCAS, Orca, Turbomole, VASP, DFTB+, Diffpy
Good Knowledge in FORTRAN77, FORTRAN 95 and Python, basic knowledge in MPI, OPENMP, HTML and Numpy.
Image processing in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop and rendering with PovRay.
Memberships and steering roles
ACS, RSC, GDCh and DPG
2022- Management Committee Member for Cost Action “COSY – CONFINED MOLECULAR SYSTEMS: FROM A NEW GENERATION OF MATERIALS TO THE STARS”
2020 Election as ECI (Early Career Investigator) member of the MAPEX Center
2009-2013 Student representative of the Chemistry Department at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Social activities
2011-2018 Leader of the youth group (Jugendwart) at the Oldenburger Yacht Club (in this context: nomination as “citizen of the year” of the city of Oldenburg in 2015)
2001-2007 Sailing instructor (coach) for young people at the Yacht Club Papenburg