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1997 – 2002 Studies of Chemistry at the University of Bayreuth, Germany; Diploma thesis on synthesis and bulk phase behaviour of triblock terpolymers; Supervision: Prof. G. Krausch & Prof. A. Müller
2002 – 2004 PhD-thesis, Subject: „Complex nanostructures in ABC triblock terpolymer thin films”, University of Bayreuth, Germany, Group of Prof. G. Krausch
2004 – 2006 Postdoc at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK; Group of Prof. U. Steiner; Experienced researcher in the EU-Network Polyfilm, RTN-6
2006 – 2010 Group leader at the Institute for Macromolecular Chemistry & Freiburg Materials Research Center, Freiburg, Germany; Service group leader of the “Scale-Up” Laboratory
2008 – 2018 Leader of an independent junior research group within the Emmy-Noether program of the DFG
2008 – 2011 Junior Fellow within FRIAS (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies)
2010 Habilitation in Macromolecular Chemistry, University of Freiburg
since 11/10 Full Professor, Head of "Lehrstuhl für Struktur & Eigenschaften polymerer Materialien", Institut für Polymerchemie, University of Stuttgart
2017 Prof invitée at the Ecole Polytechnique Paris
2019 Call for the Professorship for “Polymere Werkstoffe” at the Universität des Saarlandes, declined.
2020 Funding for the establishment of an independent Junior Research
Group with Prof. Dr. Lunter, University of Tübingen,
Excellence Strategy at the University of Tübingen
2016 Invited Professorship, Ecole Polytechnique, LabEx CHARMMMAT,
Paris
2008-2018 Emmy Noether Group of the DFG
2007-2011 Invited Professorship, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg
2008-2011 Junior Fellow in the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS),
Excellence Initiative of the University of Freiburg
2008-2010 Elite stipend of the Baden-Württemberg-Foundation
2006+2010 Awards for excellent research work, Otto-Röhm-Gedächtnisstiftung
2009 Eugen-Graetz Award for excellent research, University of Freiburg
2002 Award of the Otto-Warburg-Chemiestiftung
- Guest Researcher of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), since 2024.
- Co-Speaker of new Excellence Cluster initiative “Bionic Intelligence for Health”, University of Stuttgart and University of Tübingen, since 2023
- Speaker of the Center of Bionic Intelligence Tübingen Stuttgart (BITS), together with Prof. Syn Schmitt and Prof. Martin Giese; https://www.bionic-intelligence.org/ , since 2023
- Co-Speaker of Research Training Group GRK2948 “Mixed Ionic-Electronic Transport”, since October 2023
- Faculty of the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Intelligent Systems, since January 2023; https://imprs.is.mpg.de/
- Member of SC SimTech, since November 2022; https://www.simtech.uni-stuttgart.de/FSM/
- Associate Member of SC SimTech, Universität Stuttgart, since November 2022
- Board Member of the IMPRS-CMS, Stuttgart, since 2022
- Member of the Advisory Board of the GRK2670 – BEAM, University of Halle, since 2022
- Executive Board of the GDCh Division of Macromolecular Chemistry from 2021 to 2024.
- Editorial Advisory Board Member of JACS Au; since January 2021
- Co-organization of ACS PMSE Meeting „100 Years of Polymer Structures: Active Materials for Thin Films & Interfaces”, Philadelphia, March 2020
- Associate Editor of Macromolecules, ACS; since January 2020
- Member of the Curatorium of the Freiburg Materials Research Center (FMF) in Freiburg; since 2019
- Board of Directors of the NSERC – Green Electronics Network (GReEN) in Canada, which is headed by Prof. Mario Leclerc (Université Laval); since 2019
- Member of the International Advisory Board of Macromolecular Rapid Communications & Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, Wiley
- Executive Director of the Institute of Polymer Chemistry, interexchange with Prof. Buchmeiser every 2 years
- Member of the Curatorium at the Institute of Microelectronics (IMS Chips), Stuttgart
- Deputy head of the “Deutscher Hochschulverband”, Stuttgart
- Board member of the Vereinigung von Freunden der Universität Stuttgart e.V.
- Member of the Leading Committee of the research project ‘Nanobiomater’ funded by the Zeiss-Foundation
- Member of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker GdCH
- Head of the board of examiners for bachelor and master students in chemistry (2013 – 2018)
- Member of the committee for admission of chemistry students; University of Stuttgart
- Member of several review boards for professorships & grants