Dr. Appiah, Clement – Macromolecular chemistry (Binder, MLU)
Research topic: Crystallization of folded and supramolecular polymers
Date of defence: March 20, 2018
Methods:
1) Polymer synthesis
– Click chemistry
– Ring-Opening Polymerization (ROP)
2) Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
3) UV spectroscopy
Dr. Bregulla, Andreas – Experimental physics (Cichos, UL)
Research topic: Thermophoretic particle trapping, plasmonic nanostructures
Methods:
1) Single particle tracking
2) Fluorescence microscopy
3) Optical heating
Dr. Evgrafova, Zhanna – Macromolecular Chemistry (Binder, MLU)
Title of thesis: “Modulation of amyloid peptides aggregation by hydrophilic polymers”
Date of defence: September 1, 2020
Frenzel, Falk – Experimental physics (Kremer, UL)
Research topic: Charge transport and relaxation in polymeric ionic liquids
Method: Broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS)
Dr. Gladytz, Anika – Physical/theoretical chemistry (Abel, UL)
Research topic: Amyloids near interfaces
Methods:
1) Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
2) Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
3) Molecular Dynamics simulation (MD)
4) Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM)
Himmelreich, Martin – Biochemistry (Kiefhaber, MLU)
Research topic: Coupled Folding and Binding Reaction of pKID:KIX
Hintzen, Daniel – Physical chemistry (Abel, UL)
Research topic: Ultrafast dynamics of photo switchable polymers
Method: Time-dependent femto second spectroscopy
Dr. Kasegoankar, Ajay – Macromolecular chemistry (Binder, MLU)
Title: Synthesis of Complex Polyester-Architectures and their Crystallization
Date of defence: September 14, 2017
Methods:
1) Synthesis of polymers
– Click chemistry
– Ring-Opening Polymerization (ROP)
2) Chromatography
– High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
– Gel-Permeations-Chromatography (GPC)
Dr. Kurzhals, Steffen – Macromolecular chemistry (Binder, MLU)
Dr. Leube, Peter – Physical chemistry (Hinderberger, MLU)
Research topic: Investigation of (multi-) responsive polymers via ER-spectroscopy
Method: Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR)
Dr. Ostas, Elena – Macromolecular chemistry (Binder, MLU)
Research topic: Crystallization of supramolecular block polymers
Pleyer, Christoph – Macromolecular chemistry (Binder, MLU)
Research topic: Synthesis and characterisation of protein/polymer hybrid aggregates
Dr. Samiullah, Muhammad Haris – Physical chemistry (Kreßler, MLU)
Research topic: Synthesis and characterization of PEG networks
Methods:
1) Polymer synthesis (Click chemistry)
2) Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
3) Solution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
4) Fourier Transformed Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR)
Zimmermann, Philipp – Biochemistry (Kiefhaber, MLU)
Research topic: Investigation of native-state heterogeneity in the villin headpiece subdomain by TTET and NMR
Methods:
1) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
2) Triplett-Triplett Energy Transfer (TTET)
