Prof. Dr. Alexander Böker | Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Academic CV
02/2015	Director Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP and Chair of Polymer Materials and Polymer Technologies at the University of Potsdam
2008 – 2015	Deputy Scientific Director of the DWI-Leibnitz Institute for Interactive Materials e.V. and Chairman of the Department for Macromolecular Materials and Surfaces at RWTH Aachen
2006 – 2008	Lichtenberg Professorship for Colloid Chemistry, University of Bayreuth
2004 – 2006	Scientific assistant at Chair of Physical Chemistry II, University of Bayreuth (Prof. G. Krausch)
2002 – 2004	Postdoc at Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA (Prof. T.P. Russell)."Self-Assembly of Functionalized Nanoparticles at liquid/liquid Interfaces".
1998 – 1999	Central Research Physics, Bayer AG, Leverkusen
1996 – 1997	Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA (Prof. C.K. Ober) "Synthesis of Semifluorinated Block Copolymers and their Application in Thin Films".
Education
2007	Habilitation in Physical Chemistry, University of Bayreuth: "Template-Directed Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles".
1999 – 2002	PhD thesis in Macromolecular and Physical Chemistry (Prof. G. Krausch, Prof. A.H.E. Müller, University of Bayreuth):"Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers in External Fields".
1998 – 1999	Diploma thesis (Prof. R. Stadler, Prof. B.A. Wolf, University of Mainz; Dr. K. Reihs, Bayer AG): "Seitenkettenfluorierte Blockcopolymere als molekulare Funktionsschichten an Polymeroberflächen".
1993 – 1998	Chemical studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
1992 – 1993	Military service
1992	Abitur
Prizes and Scholarships
2015	ERC Consolidator Grant
2006	Lichtenberg Professorship of VolkswagenStiftung
2006	Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Group of DFG
2005	Science Prize of the University Association of the University of Bayreuth
2003 – 2004	Scholarship of the Max Kade Foundation
2002	Science Prize of the City of Bayreuth for an extraordinary scientific dissertation
1999 – 2001	Kekulé Scholarship of the Chemical Industry Fund
1996 – 1997	DAAD Scholarship Abroad
Memberships
Review Board "Polymeric Materials" Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
Reimund Stadler Minerva Center for Mesoscale Macromolecular Engineering, Beer Sheva, Israel
Editor-in-Chief of Polymers (MDPI)
International Advisory Board of Macromolecular Chemistry & Physics (Wiley-VCH)
Editorial Board of Colloid & Polymer Science (Springer) and Polymer (Elsevier)
Member of the supervisory board pearls Potsdam Research Network
Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e.V. GDCh
Board member LAUF e.V.