Members

Constanze Neumann

Independent Research Group Leader (Lise-Meitner Excellence Program)
Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung

Postdoctoral training 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020

Postdoctoral training 
Harvard University, 2017

Ph.D.
Harvard University, 2016

MChem
Oxford University, 2010


ORCID: 0000-0003-1004-1140 , LinkedIn, ResearchGate

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Postdoctoral Researchers

Leila Karam

Postdoctoral Researcher

Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung

Ph.D.

Sorbonne University, Pierre et Marie Curie Campus, 2019

M.Sc.

University of Balamand, 2016

B.Sc.

University of Balamand, 2014

Deepika Rani

Postdoctoral Researcher

Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung 

Ph.D.

Institute of Nano Science and Technology (Mohali, India) and Panjab University, 2022

M.Sc.

Jamia Millia Islamia University, 2015

B.Sc.

Banaras Hindu University, 2012


ORCID: 0000-0003-1163-4861 

Twitter: @DeepikaRani0027

Deepika can be found on LinkedIn, Google Scholar and Research Gate.

Graduate Students

Aamir Abbas

Ph.D.

Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung

M.Sc.

King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, 2015

B.Sc.

University of the Punjab Lahore, 2012 


ORCID: 0000-0001-6862-7457


Aamir can be found on Google Scholar, Research Gate and Publons.

Marco Bengsch

Ph.D.

Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung

M.Sc.

Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 2021 

B.Sc.

Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 2018

Junjun Chen

Ph.D.

Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung - visiting PhD student

Chinese Academy of Sciences


B.Sc.

Soochow University, 2019

Hao Deng

Ph.D.

Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung 

M.Sc.

China Agricultural University, 2020

B.Sc.

China Agricultural University, 2016

Neha Gupta

Ph.D.

Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung 

MSc.

National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, 2015

BSc.

Hansraj College, University of Delhi, 2013


Neha can be found on ResearchGate and LinkedIn.

Qiming Jin

Ph.D.

Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung

M.Sc.

Kyoto University, 2020

B.Sc.

Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2018


ORCID: 0000-0001-9945-8596

Qiming can be found on Google Scholar.

Master Students and Research Interns

Sankalpa Nanda

M.Sc. thesis research

Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung

M.Sc.

Ruhr Universität Bochum, 2021present

B.Sc.

Christ University, Bangalore

Yechun Wang

M.Sc. thesis research

Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung

M.Sc.

Technical University of Munich, 2020 – present

B.Sc.

Reutlingen University, 2018 – 2020

B.Sc.

Donghua University in Shanghai, 2015 – 2017

Technical Staff

Daniel Dotzauer

Chemical Technician


Daniel completed his training at the Max-Planck Insitut für Kohlenforschung from 2016 until 2019, after which he took a position as a physics laboratory assistant in the High Pressure laboratory. In search of a new challenge, he joined the Neumann group in 2024 as a chemical technician.



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