Since 2023     Helmholtz Young Investigator Group leader at the Helmholtz-Institute Erlangen-                                       Nürnberg for Renewable Energy, https://www.hi-ern.de/profile/ledendecker_m

Since 2022     Professor at the Technical University Munich (TUM), campus Straubing leading the                                  group “Sustainable Energy Materials”

2020-2022      Independent NanoMatFutur Group Leader at the TU Darmstadt in the Department                                      Technical Chemistry I (Bastian Etzold)

2019-2019      Parental leave

2016-2019      Max Planck Institute for Iron Research, Project Coordinator and Postdoctoral Research                                  Fellow, in the group of K. J. J. Mayrhofer

2018               UC Berkeley, California, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the group of P. Alivisatos

2016               Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, M.                                        Antonietti, Evonik Industries AG

2013-2016      Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, PhD, M. Antonietti

2015               Weizmann Institute of Science, Rechovot, Israel, visiting PhD in the group of R. Naama

Achievements and awards

Helmholtz Young Investigator Group at Helmholtz-Institut Erlangen-Nürnberg für Erneuerbare Energien, 2023

Top 10 Young Scientist of the Year 2020 (academics)

DAAD scholarship, 2011

DAAD scholarship, 2018

NanoMatFutur Group from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, 2020

Erasmus fellow 2012