Susanne Boye

Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden, Germany

Dr Susanne Boye graduated in biochemical engineering in Dresden in 2006. Afterwards, she obtained her doctoral degree in 2013 with Prof. B. Voit at TU Dresden. From 2013-2014 she joined the young scientist group ChemIT in the excellence “Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden” as a postdoctoral researcher. As a member of the Polymer Separation Group, she established the AF4 technique at the IPF. She is particularly interested in the physicochemical and in-depth characterization of polymer-protein conjugates, complex synthetic and natural (bio-)nanostructures, and molecular interactions. Furthermore, she is responsible for the data management and has introduced electronical lab notes in the daily scientific work in the institute.

https://www.ipfdd.de/en/organization/organization-chart/personal-homepages/dr-susanne-boye/

Silvia Moreno

Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dreseden, Germany

Dr Silvia Moreno obtained her PhD in chemistry in the University of Alcalá (Spain) in 2016 with Prof. Gómez and Dr. Muñoz-Fernández. She dealt with the design, synthesis and characterization of dendritic systems used for biomedical applications. Later, she got a fellowship to work as a post-doc at Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden e. V under the supervision of Dr. Appelhans and Prof. Dr. Voit. Currently, she is a project leader at the same research group and expert in the design and characterization of stimuli responsive polymeric vesicles as therapeutic nanocarriers and for mimicking cell functions. She has an international and highly interdisciplinary academic career.

https://www.ipfdd.de/en/organization/organization-chart/personal-homepages/dr-silvia-moreno/
 

2. Topic: Mass spectrometry

Hendrik Frisch 

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Dr Hendrik Frisch received his PhD in Chemistry from the Institute of Organic Chemistry in 2016 at the University of Muenster, Germany. In 2017, he joined the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) as a postdoctoral fellow of the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina to work with Prof. Barner-Kowollik on the development of light gated polymer ligation systems. Since 2020, he is a Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow at QUT. Dr Frisch’s research program strives to unleash untapped synergy between peptide based macromolecular architectures and photochemistry to overcome chemical challenges under biocompatible conditions

https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/h.frisch

3. Topic: Field Flow Fractionation

Kim Williams 

Colorado School of Mines, USA

Prof Kim Williams is working as a Professor of Chemistry at the Colorado School of Mines, Research-Advising Faculty in the Materials Science program, and Faculty in the Quantitative Biosciences and Bioengineering program. Her work with field-flow fractionation started with her postdoctoral at the University of Utah with the late J. Calvin Giddings. Her current research program can be broadly classified as separation science of nanometer to micrometer-size species. This includes a focus on developing field-flow fractionation (FFF) with light scattering and mass spectrometry approaches to simultaneously separate and characterize complex multi-component systems. More specifically, her research group has introduced new methods to measure distributions in nanoparticle surface composition and shape as well as difficult to analyze polymer attributes such as architecture and number of chain ends. Applications extend to materials for renewable energy systems and membrane, biotherapeutic proteins, and biological particles such as lipoproteins and extracellular vesicles for disease diagnostics.

https://kimwilliams-fff.mines.edu/about/

4. Topic: Thermal analysis and Rheology

Valerian Hirschberg 

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Dr Valerian Hirschberg does his habilitation in the group of Prof. Manfred Wilhelm at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, leading the group’s research activities regarding anionic polymerization and rheology and mechanics of branched polymer model systems and thermoplastic elastomers. Rheological and mechanical properties are correlated with topological parameters of branched model polymers, for the design of bulk materials, but also as additives for more efficient processing and recycling. He has a Bachelor (2013) and Master (2015) in Chemistry from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, as well as a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Université Laval in Quebec City/Canada (2016-2019). During his Ph.D. he investigated the mechanical long-term behavior (fatigue) of polymer model compounds.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Valerian-Hirschberg