Fraunhofer Institute for Academic CV |
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02/2015 |
Director Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP, Full Professor, Chair of Polymer Materials and Polymer Technologies at the University of Potsdam |
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2008 – 2015 |
Deputy Scientific Director of the DWI-Leibnitz Institute for Interactive Materials e.V., Full Professor, Chair of Macromolecular Materials and Surfaces at RWTH Aachen University |
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12/2006 – 11/2008 |
Associate Professor Colloid Chemistry, University of Bayreuth |
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2004 – 2006 |
Assistant Professor at Chair of Physical Chemistry II, University of Bayreuth (Prof. G. Krausch) |
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2002 – 2004 |
Postdoc at Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA |
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1998 – 1999 |
Central Research Physics, Bayer AG, Leverkusen |
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1996 – 1997 |
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA (Prof. C.K. Ober) |
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Education |
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2007 |
Habilitation in Physical Chemistry, University of Bayreuth: |
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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". |
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1998 – 1999 |
Diploma thesis (Prof. R. Stadler, Prof. B.A. Wolf, University of Mainz; Dr. K. Reihs, Bayer AG): |
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1993 – 1998 |
Chemical studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA |
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Fellowships and Honors |
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2015 |
ERC Consolidator Grant Self-replicating Colloidal Assemblies (RepliColl) |
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2006 |
Associate Professor (Lichtenberg-Fellowship of the VolkswagenStiftung) |
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2006 |
Emmy Noether-Fellowship of the DFG |
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2005 |
Science Prize of the University Association of the University of Bayreuth |
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2003 – 2004 |
Fellowship by Max Kade-Foundation |
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1999 – 2001 |
Kekulé Scholarship of the Chemical Industry Fund |
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1996 – 1997 |
DAAD Fellowship for Studies abroad |
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Functions and Memberships |
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Member of various Boards: International Advisory Board of Macromolecular Chemistry & Physics (Wiley-VCH), Editorial Board of Colloid & Polymer Science (Springer), Polymer (Elsevier) & Progress in Polymer Science (Science Direct) |
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since 2025 |
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research |
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since 2024 |
Associate Editor SCI Sustainability (Wiley) |
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since 2024 |
Member of the Senate of the University of Potsdam |
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since 2024 |
Member of the Main Commission of the Scientific and Technical Council of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft |
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2023-2024 |
Chief Executive Business of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Physicians (GDNÄ) |
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since 2023 |
Chairman of Berlin-Brandenburgischer Verband für Polymerforschung |
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since 2022 |
Speaker Fraunhofer Flagship Project Sustainable, Simulation-guided Biobased and Biohybrid Materials |
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since 2021 |
Member of the Advisory Board on Sustainability of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft |
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since 2020 |
Member of the Board of Directors, Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Circular Plastics Economy (CCPE) |
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since 2020 |
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since 2020 |
Member of the Scientific Selection Committee of the Joseph von Fraunhofer Award |
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since 2019 |
Speaker of the Board of Directors Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Programmable Materials (CPM) |
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2016-2024 |
Member of the Review Board of German Science Foundation (DFG) Polymer Materials |
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since 2010 |
Member of the Reimund Stadler Minerva Center for Mesoscale Macromolecular Engineering, Beer Sheva, Israel |
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since 2009 |
Editor-in-Chief of Open Access Journal Polymers (MDPI) |
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