Alumni

Dr. Pauline Liesfeld
M.Sc., HU Berlin, Germany, 2016
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2016 - 2022

"Torwards Light-Controlled Unidirectional Information Transport in Multiphotochromic Architectures"

Now:
      Product Development at BioAnalyt GmbH

Dr. Dragos Mutruc
M.Sc., HU Berlin, Germany, 2016
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2016 - 2022

"Dynamic Covalent Chemistry for Accelerated Photoswitch Discovery an Photoswitchable Core-Shell Metal-Organic Frameworks"

Now:
    

Dr. Christopher Knie
M.Sc., HU Berlin, Germany, 2014
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2014 - 2019

"Light-Responsive Azobenzene-Based Architectures: From Large Macromolecular Aggregates to Small Zwitterions"

Now:
    

Dr. Yves Garmshausen
Dipl.-Chem., HU Berlin, Germany, 2013
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2013 - 2019

"Photochromism of Arylazotetracyanocyclopentadienides and Excited State Activation Barriers of Dihydropyrene Switches"

Now:
     Post-Doctoral Fellow
     Research group of Prof. Stefan Hecht
     HU Berlin, Germany

Dr. Fabian Eisenreich
M.Sc., HU Berlin, Germany, 2014
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2014- 2018

"Photo-Guided Polimerizations-From photoswichable catalysis to 3D printing"

Now:
     Post-Doctoral Fellow
     Research group of Prof. Bert Meijer
     TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Dr. Michael Peter Kathan
M.Sc., FU Berlin, Germany, 2014
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2015- 2018

"Photoswitching Reactivity from remote-controlled to light-driven chemical systems"

Now:
     Post-Doctoral Fellow
     Research group of Prof. Ben L. Feringa
     University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Dr. Sebastian Fredrich
M.Sc., HU Berlin, Germany, 2014
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2014- 2018

"Diarylethene Photoawitches Bearing Carbonyl Functionalities"

Now:
     Post-Doctoral Fellow
     Research group of Prof Albert P.H.J. Schenning
     TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Dr. Anne Fuhrmann
Dipl.-Chem., HU Berlin, Germany, 2013
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2014- 2018

"Photocontrol over Thermally Healable Materials"

Now:
    

Dr. Johannes Gurke
Dipl.-Chem., HU Berlin, Germany, 2013
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2013- 2018

"Protons and Photons - Interconnecting Photochemical and Acid-Base Equilibria"

Now:
     Post-Doctoral Fellow

Dr. Michael Kleinwächter
Dipl.-Chem., HU Berlin, Germany, 2012
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2013 - 2018

"Highly Constrained Dithienylethenes"

Now:
     Post-Doctoral Fellow
     Research group of Prof. Gwénaël Rapenne
     Centre d'Elaboration de Materiaux et d'Etudes Structurales (CEMES/CNRS)
     Toulouse, France

Dr. Antti Alexander Senf
M.Sc., FU Berlin, Germany, 2012
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2012 - 2016

"Design and Synthesis of Photoswitchable Polymerization Catalysts"

Now:

Dr. Javier Moreno Ortego
Dipl.-Chem., Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 2011
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2011 - 2015

"Light-Controlled Energy Transfer"

Now:
     Post-Doctoral Fellow
     Research group of Prof. Dorothea Fiedler
     Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP)
     Berlin, Germany 
    

Dr. Mirko Lohse
Dipl.-Chem., HU Berlin, Germany, 2011
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2011 - 2015

"Multivalente Kronenetherbasierende Gerüststrukturen"

Now:
     Staff Scientist
     micro resist technology GmbH

Dr. Andreas Viertel
Dipl.-Chem., HU Berlin, Germany, 2011
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2011 - 2015

"Molekulare Schaltkreise und Nanodrähte"

Now:
     Staff Scientist
     Persán (Sevilla/ Spain)

    

Dr. Martin Herder
Dipl.-Chem., HU Berlin, Germany, 2010
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2010 - 2015

"Improving the Design of Diarylethene Photoswitches and their Exploitation as Remote-Controlled Building Blocks"

Now:
     Post-Doctoral Fellow
     Research group of Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn
     Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoleculaires (I.S.I.S.)
     Strasbourg, France 
    

Dr. Björn Kobin
Dipl.-Chem., HU Berlin, Germany, 2011
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2011 - 2015

"Ladder-Type oligo-(p-Phenylene)s for Hybrid Optoelectronic Devices based on Resonant Energy Transfer"

Now:
     Scientific Officer
     Research group of Prof. Stefan Hecht
     Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Dr. Philipp Viehmann
Dipl.-Chem., Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, 2009
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2010 - 2014

"Photoschaltbare Polymerisationen"

Now:
   Staff Scientist
   Kodak Graphics Communication GmbH

Dr. Robert Göstl
Dipl.-Chem., HU Berlin, Germany, 2011
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2011 - 2014

"Photocontrolling the Diels-Alder Reaction"

Now:
     Post-Doctoral Fellow
     Research group of Profs. Bert Meijer & Rint Sijbesma
     TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Dr. Maria-Melanie Russew
Dipl.-Chem., HU Berlin, Germany, 2009
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2009 - 2013

"Azobenzole für die E/Z-Isomerisierung durch Zweiphotonenanregung"

Now:
    Staff Scientist
    micro resist technology GmbH

Dr. Zhilin Yu
M.Sc., Nankai University, Tianjin, China, 2009
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2009 - 2013

"Oligo(azobenzene) Foldamer: Relationship Between Structure and Photoresponse"

Now:
     Assistant Professor (tenure track)
     Institute of Polymer Chemistry
     College of Chemistry
     Nankai University
     Tianjin, China

Dr. Erik Johnsen
Dipl.-Chem., Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany, 2008
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2008 - 2012

"Novel Photoswitchable Catalysts Based on N-Heterocyclic Carbenes"

Dr. Volker Eberhardt
Dipl.-Chem., HU Berlin, Germany, 2008
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2008 - 2012

"Molekulare Elektronik: Syntheseansätze für photomodulierbare Leiterstrukturen und den oberflächenunterstützten Aufbau kovalenter Netzwerke"

Now:
    Staff Scientist
    Fraunhofer IAP - Institute for Applied Polymer Research

Dr. Marie-Anne Berlin
Dipl.-Chem., HU Berlin, Germany, 2008
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2008 - 2012

"Auf dem Weg zu photoschaltbaren Bisinterkalatoren für dsDNA auf Basis von Azobenzol- und Naphthalendiimid-Bausteinen"

Now:
     Dr. Marie-Anne Stoll
     Product Developer Hair Care
     Dr. Kurt Wolff GmbH & Co KG

Dr. Marie Gille
Dipl.-Chem., Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany, 2008
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2009 - 2012

"Graphen und Graphenstreifen Bottom-up: Chemische Syntheseansätze für defektfreies und gezielt modifiziertes ein- und zweidimensionales Graphen"

Now:
    Teacher
     KGS Bad Lauterberg

Dr. Jan J. Klein
Dipl.-Chem., HU Berlin, Germany, 2007
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2007 - 2011

"Towards Novel Aggregation Inhibitors and Stimulus-Responsive Peptide-Tweezers"

Now:
    Product Manager
    micro resist technology GmbH

Dr. Chandan Maity
M.Sc., Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, 2006
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2006 - 2011

"Spiropyran-based Systems for Molecular Electronics"

Now:
    Post-Doctoral Fellow
    Advanced Soft Matter Group (Prof. Jan van Esch)
    Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Dr. Denise Zornik
Dipl.-Chem., HU Berlin, Germany, 2007
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2007 - 2011

"The 1,2,3-Triazole Moiety as Conformationally Restricting Entity for New Foldamer Motifs"

Now:
    Staff Scientist
    Vetter Pharma-Fertigung GmbH & Co. KG

Dr. Tamer El Malah
M.Sc., University of Ain Shams, Cairo, Egypt, 2003
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2007 - 2011

"Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Folded Amphiphiles: Synthesis and Liquid Crystalline Behavior"

Now:
    Researcher
    Al Jouf University, Saudi Arabia

Dr. Robert M. Meudtner
Dipl.-Chem., FU Berlin, Germany, 2005
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2005 - 2009

"Neuartige Triazol-basierte aromatische Rückgrate für die Makromolekulare und Supramolekulare Chemie"

Now:
    Staff Scientist
     LGC GmbH

Dr. Sebastian Hartwig
Dipl.-Chem., Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany, 2004
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2004 - 2009

"New Peptide-Mimicking Scaffolds: Influence of Stereochemistry, Connectivity, and Topology"

Now:
    Staff Scientist
    Elastogran (BASF)

Dr. Ragnar S. Stoll
Dipl.-Chem., FU Berlin, Germany, 2004
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2005 - 2009

"Design of Photoswitchable Catalyst Systems"

Now:
    Staff Scientist
    Elastogran (BASF)

Dr. Maike V. Peters
Dipl.-Chem., FU Berlin, Germany, 2004
Dr. rer. nat., HU Berlin, Germany, 2004 - 2008

"Photoswitchable Catalysts"

Now:
    Dr. Maike V. Balbo Block
    Technical Manager
    Evonik Gorapur GmbH

Dr. Christian Kaiser
Dipl.-Chem., J.-W.-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main, Germany, 2003
Dr. rer. nat., FU Berlin, Germany, 2003 - 2006

"Systematische Untersuchungen zum Helix-Knäuel-Übergang in meta- Phenylenethinylen-Polymeren"

Then:
    Post-Doctoral Fellow
    GKSS Teltow

Dr. Marco A. Balbo Block
Dipl.-Chem., FU Berlin, Germany, 2002
Dr. rer. nat., FU Berlin, Germany, 2002 - 2006

"Folding Architectures Containing Phenylene Ethynylene Oligomers and Polymers"

Now:
    Laboratory Manager
    tesa SE

Dr. Anzar Khan
M.Sc., NCL Pune, India, 2001
Dr. rer. nat., FU Berlin, Germany, 2002 - 2005

"Phenylene Ethynylene Foldamers: From Synthesis to Tubular Scaffolding and Photoswitchable Helices"

Now:
     Assistant Professor
     Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
     Korea University
     Seoul, Republic of Korea

Dr. Dennis Chung-Yang Huang
Post-Doc, HU Berlin, Germany, 2014 - 2018


Now:
          Assistant Professor
          Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (ICReDD)
          Hokkaido University
          Japan

Dr. Aurelio Bonasera
Post-Doc, HU Berlin, Germany, 2015 - 2018


Now:
    Associate Researcher
    University Palermo, Italy

Dr. Bernd Schmidt
Post-Doc, HU Berlin, Germany, 2013 - 2014
Feodor Lynen Return Fellowship, 2016 - 2017

Now:
    Junior Group Leader
    Heinrich Heine University
    Düsseldorf, Germany

Dr. Virginia Valderrey Berciano
Post-Doc, HU Berlin, Germany, 2014 - 2017

Now:
BAM, Berlin, Germany

Dr. Alexis Goulet-Hanssens
Post-Doc, HU Berlin, Germany, 2013 - 2017

Now:
Beiersdorf AG, Germany, Hamburg

Dr. Derk Jan van Dijken
Post-Doc, HU Berlin, Germany, 2014 - 2016

Now:
   Product Development Scientist
   BASF, The Netherlands

Dr. Petr Kovaricek
Post-Doc, HU Berlin, Germany, 2014 - 2015

Now:
    Post-Doctoral Researcher
    (Fellowship of the Academy of Sciences)
    Department of Low-Dimensional Systems (Dr. Martin Kalbac)
    Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague

Dr. Sonia Castellanos Ortega
Post-Doc, HU Berlin, Germany, 2010 - 2013

Now:
    Group Leader
    Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography (ARCNL)
    Amsterdam, The Netherlands
   

Dr. Ryo Tanaka
Post-Doc, HU Berlin, Germany, 2011 - 2012

Now:
    Assistant Professor
    Polymer Chemistry Group (Prof. Takeshi Shiono)
    Department of Applied Chemistry
    Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University, Japan

M.Sc. Angelique Ladwig
M.Sc., HU Berlin, Germany, 2018

“Entwicklung von wasserlöslichen Photoschaltern als Modell für lichtaktivierte Acryltransferreagenzien“

M.Sc. Jonas Becker
M.Sc., HU Berlin, Germany, 2018

“Photoswitchable Imine-based Dynamic Materials“

Dipl.-Chem. Anna Grafl
Dipl.-Chem., HU Berlin, Germany, 2016

"New azo-benzenes/thiophenes architectures"

Now:
    Ph.D. Student
    AK Börner (Humboldt Berlin)

M.Sc. Sanja Winterhalder
M.Sc., HU Berlin, Germany, 2016

“Photoschaltbare Prolin-basierte Organokatalysatoren“

Now:
teacher of science

M.Sc. Sebastian Radunz
M.Sc., HU Berlin, Germany, 2016

“Untersuchungen zur negativen Photochromie von einfach und doppelt inversen triangularen Terthiophenen“

Now:
Ph.D. Student
BAM, Berlin, Germany

Dipl.-Chem. Felix Brauße
Dipl.-Chem., HU Berlin, Germany, 2013

"Self-Assembling Amphiphilic Azobenzene Polymers"

Now:
    Ph.D. Student
    Max-Born-Institut

Dipl.-Chem. Torben Peters
Dipl.-Chem., HU Berlin, Germany, 2010

"Photoswitchable Chelate Ligands"

Now:
   Dr. Torben Adermann
   Research Scientist
   BASF SE

Dipl.-Chem. Daniel Becker
Dipl.-Chem., HU Berlin, Germany, 2009

"Design und Synthese Neuartiger Polyazaacene als Elektronenakzeptormaterialien"

Now:
    Ph.D. Student
    Research group of Prof. Dr. Arne Thomas
    TU Berlin

Dipl.-Chem. Irén Fischer
Dipl.-Chem., HU Berlin, Germany, 2009

"Elektronenarme Heteroaromaten für Neue Organische n-Halbleiter"

Then:
    Ph.D. Student
    Research group of Profs. Bert Meijer & Albert Schenning
    TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Dipl.-Chem. Susanne Grützner
Dipl.-Chem., HU Berlin, Germany, 2007

Now:
    Staff Scientist
    micro resist technology GmbH

Jana Hildebrandt

Laboratory Technician, HU Berlin, Germany, 2011 - 2018

Now: 
    Laboratory Technician NMR-Service
    HU Berlin, Germany

Henry Müller
Laboratory Technician, HU Berlin, Germany, 2011 - 2012

Now: