Katharina Landfester

Katharina Landfester (* 1969 ) is a German chemist. Since 2008 she has been director at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz.

Life

Landfester studied chemistry at the Technical University of Darmstadt and at the Ecole d'Application des Hautes Polymères in Strasbourg . She received her doctorate in 1995 from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz on a topic from latex research after doing research with Hans Wolfgang Spiess at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research. She did her postdoc at Lehigh University , where she dealt with mini-emulsion technology. In 1998 she came back to Germany and worked at the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces in Golm and headed the miniemulsion group. In this research area , she completed her habilitation in 2002 at the University of Potsdam and in 2003 took over the chair for macromolecular chemistry at the University of Ulm . Here she began her work in the field of biomedical applications in collaboration with several medical groups dealing with the interaction of nanoparticles with different cell chambers, the marking of cells and the delivery of substances to specific sites. Since 2008 she has been director at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research.

Landfester is married and has two children.

Act

Landfester's broad research interests range from polymerization in miniemulsions, structure formation in nanocompartments, characterization of physical properties in droplets, enzymatic reactions in heterophase, encapsulation of hydrophilic and hydrophobic components in nanocapsules, synthesis and characterization of functionalized nanoparticles / capsules to the uptake of nanoparticles in various cells and in vivo applications.

She has published around 630 articles in international journals and holds 50 patents. She also initiated the Elisabeth Schiemann College of the Max Planck Society , the aim of which is to promote the careers of excellent female scientists after their postdoc phase and to support them on their way to a professorship or head of a research institution. She is also the spokesperson for this college.

Awards and memberships

• 1998: Liebig grant from the Chemical Industry Fund (FCI)
• 2001: Reimund Stadler Prize of the Society of German Chemists (GdCh)
• 2001: Dr. Hermann Schnell Foundation
• 2002–2007: Member of the Young Academy of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and German natural scientist Leopoldina
• Since 2008: Scientific member of the Max Planck Society
• Since 2010: Member of the Academy of Technical Science ( Acatech )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Katharina Landfester: Synthesis and characterization of core-shell latices with electron microscopy and solid-state NMR . ( dnb.de [accessed on June 10, 2020]).
2. ↑ Katharina Landfester: Miniemulsions for polymerization processes and materials science . ( dnb.de [accessed on June 10, 2020]).
3. ↑ Landfester, Katharina. Retrieved May 29, 2020 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Georg-August University of Göttingen - Public Relations: Katharina Landfester - Georg August University of Göttingen. Retrieved May 29, 2020 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Director. Retrieved May 29, 2020 .