Christoph Neinhuis

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Christoph Jakob Neinhuis (born July 27, 1962 in Kalkar - Appeldorn ) is a German botanist who conducts research in the field of bionics , among other things .

Life

Neinhuis attended the Kalkar grammar school until 1981 and then trained as a gardener until 1983. He studied biology at the University of Bonn from 1984 to 1990 and then did his doctorate with Wilhelm Barthlott . As a research assistant at Barthlott, Neinhuis dealt intensively with the mechanisms and principles of the lotus effect and its transferability to technical applications; His dissertation, completed in 1993, was entitled Distribution, Characterization and Function of Microsculpted Surfaces in Plants, with a special focus on wettability and contamination . Numerous works with Barthlott on the lotus effect and its applicability in practice followed, of which the contribution Purity of the sacred lotus, or escape from contamination in biological surfaces from 1997 is considered to be groundbreaking. Your project Role Model Nature: Unpolluting New Materials was nominated in 1998 for the German Future Prize. In the following year, Neinhuis and Barthlott received the Philip Morris Research Prize for their work on the transfer of the lotus effect to technical applications .

At the end of 1999, Neinhuis submitted his habilitation thesis in the field of botany at the University of Bonn and then represented the professorship for botany at the University of Cologne until 2002 . Since 2002, Neinhuis has been Professor of Botany at the Technical University of Dresden and Director of the Dresden Botanical Garden and the Pirna -zutendorf Botanical Collection . As director, he is in charge of the Herbarium Dresdense (DR), which is the largest Saxon herbarium with around 500,000 plant specimens and is listed in the Herbariorum index , as well as the palaeobotanical collection with around 800 items, which was originally built by Harald Walther .

In 2014, Neinhuis was awarded the Innovation Prize of the Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research Dresden for the "development of robust, water- and oil-repellent polymer membranes based on the model of the skin structures of springtails (Collembola)" . Since 2014 he has been a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig and President of the Natural Science Society ISIS Dresden . Neinhuis has been researching Easter leek plants since the 1980s, among other things . Since 2017, a newly discovered species of the family after Neinhuis has been named Aristolochia Neinhuisii .

Publications (selection)

  • 1997: W. Barthlott & C. Neinhuis: Purity of the sacred lotus, or escape from contamination in biological surfaces . Planta 202, pp. 1-8, doi : 10.1007 / s004250050096 .
  • 1997: C. Neinhuis & W. Barthlott: Characterization and distribution of water-repellent, self-cleaning plant surfaces . Annals of botany 79 (6), pp. 667-677, doi : 10.1006 / anbo.1997.0400 .
  • 2005: R. Fürstner, W. Barthlott, C. Neinhuis & P. ​​Walzel: Wetting and self-cleaning properties of artificial superhydrophobic surfaces . Langmuir 21 (3), pp. 956-961, doi : 10.1021 / la0401011 .
  • 2010: H. Schwager, T. Haushahn, C. Neinhuis, T. Speck & T. Masselter: Principles of branching morphology and anatomy in arborescent monocotyledons and columnar cacti as concept generators for branched fiber-reinforced composites . Advanced Engineering Materials, 12: B 695–698, doi : 10.1002 / adem.201080057 .
  • 2011: MJ Harrington, K. Razghandi, F. Ditsch, L. Guiducci, M. Rueggeberg, JWC Dunlop, P. Fratzl, C. Neinhuis & I. Burgert: Origami-like unfoldung of hydro.actuated icce plant seed capsules . Nature Comm. 2: 337, doi : 10.1038 / ncomms1336 .
  • 2013: R. Hensel, R. Helbig, C. Neinhuis & C. Werner: Tunable nano-replication to explore the omniphobic characteristics of springtail skin . NPG Asia Materials 5, e37; doi : 10.1038 / am.2012.66 .
  • 2013: A. Kempe, T. Lautenschläger, A. Lange & C. Neinhuis: How to become a tree without wood - Biomechanical analysis of the stem of papaya (Carica papaya L.) . Plant Biology, May 8, 2013, doi : 10.1111 / plb.12035 .
  • 2015: R. Hensel, C. Neinhuis & C. Werner: The springtail cuticle as a blueprint for omniphobis surfaces . Chem Soc Rev. January 21, 2016, 21; 45 (2), pp. 323-341, doi : 10.1039 / c5cs00438a .
  • 2016: W. Barthlott, M. Mail & C. Neinhuis: Superhydrophobic hierarchically structured surfaces in biology: evolution, structural principles and biomimetic applications . Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A. doi : 10.1098 / rsta.2016.0191 .

honors and awards

  • 1998: Nomination for the German Future Prize for Technology and Innovation by the Federal President (with Wilhelm Barthlott)
  • 1999: Philip Morris Research Prize (with Wilhelm Barthlott)
  • 2014: Innovation Prize of the Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research Dresden (with René Hensel, Ralf Helbig, Julia Nickerl and Carsten Werner)
  • 2014: Full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neinhuis, Christoph Jakob in the Index of Botanists at Harvard University.
  2. ↑ See citation overview on Wilhelm Barthlott on Google Scholar.
  3. ↑ Nominated in 1998 on deutscher-zukunftspreis.de
  4. ↑ winners 1999 philipmorris-stiftung.de
  5. ^ Herbarium Dresdense in the portal Scientific Collections.
  6. ↑ Paleobotanical Collection in the Scientific Collections portal.
  7. ↑ Dry with artificial springtail skin . dgm.de, April 23, 2014.
  8. ^ History of ISIS Dresden on snsd.de
  9. ↑ Newly discovered plant named after a Dresden professor . focus.de, July 5, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Neinhuis, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neinhuis, Christoph Jakob (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and bionist
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Kalkar - Appeldorn