Starting in June 2024, Felix is an Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessor) of Digital Chemistry at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal. Born and raised in Germany, Felix studied Chemistry at the University of Münster, where he received his BSc in 2015 and his MSc in 2017. After a research stay at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2016–2017, with Tim F. Jamison), Felix returned to Münster and obtained his PhD in Chemistry in the group of Frank Glorius. From 2021 to 2024, Felix was a Schmidt Futures “AI in Science” postdoctoral Fellow in the group of Alán Aspuru-Guzik at the University of Toronto, before assuming his current position in Wuppertal in June 2024.

Felix is an organic chemist at heart – and his research interests lie in the development of a digital toolbox for chemistry, and its application to the discovery of sustainable catalytic transformations. His research is inherently interdisciplinary, integrating established experimental techniques from organic chemistry with methods from data science, computational chemistry, and artificial intelligence.