Technische Universität Chemnitz
Institut für Chemie
Büro A13.332
Straße der Nationen 62
09111 Chemnitz
+49 (371) 531-39162
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Martin received his undergraduate education in chemistry and biochemistry from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany. After obtaining his Master's degree in 2006, he pursued graduate studies with Herbert Mayr in physical organic chemistry working on ambident reactivity and kinetics supported by a PhD scholarship of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie. In 2011, Martin moved to the University of California, Los Angeles as a Feodor-Lynen postdoctoral fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt foundation where he worked with Ken Houk on different aspects of computational organic chemistry. In 2013, Martin moved to the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cologne as an independent researcher supported by a Liebig fellowship of the Fonds der chemischen Industrie and completed his habilitation in 2017. He was also the elected board member for the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences in the Junior Faculty Club (2017–2022) and acted as its speaker from 2019 to 2020. Martin additionally served as a substitute professor for organic chemistry at the University of Regensburg (04/18–03/19) and the interim chair for organic chemistry at the RWTH Aachen (04/19–12/21). In 2022, Martin accepted an offer from the TU Chemnitz for a Heisenberg professorship in Theoretical Organic Chemistry.
The research of the Breugst group was awarded with a prize from the Otto Röhm Gedächtnisstiftung (2017) and with the Karl-Arnold prize from the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts (2020).