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As scientists, we are driven by an insatiable curiosity about the foundations of nature. While application-focused research is important in the present, I believe that more fundamental research paves the way for the applications of tomorrow.
As such, I aim to provide necessary fundamental insights into the chemistry of elements across the periodic table — with a special focus on my favorite element: technetium — for the application-focused projects of the future. With broad practical experience with many different transition and main-group elements, I pursue a holistic research approach combining organic, inorganic, physical and theoretical chemistry. We often use chemical model systems to break down and tackle the complexity of problems.

"All models are wrong, but some are useful."
^{George E. P. Box, 1976}