Lena completed her Ph.D. at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany, in 2015 under the supervision of Prof. Thomas Müller. She focused on modern main-group element chemistry and NMR spectroscopic investigations on highly reactive silylcationic oligosilanes.
In her postdoctoral stay at The University of Edinburgh in Scotland in 2016 to 2017 with Dr Michael Cowley, she started to research the chemistry of low-valent group 13 element containing compounds. This postdoc was supported by the Newton Fellowship, funded by the Royal Society. Since 2017, she has been a senior scientist in the group of Thomas Müller and combines the knowledge of group 13 and group 14 low-valent compounds and investigates their electronic nature and reactivity.
