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With over a decade of professional experience in laser-material interaction and a PhD in the border area of chemistry and physics, I find solutions to find sustainable energy solutions. I have proven my communication and organisational skills in numerous international and interdisciplinary research collaborations and voluntary work. I have gained relevant experience in the planning and realisation of projects and the presentation of project results at conferences and in publications. I take the lead in solving challenges together as a team.

General Information

Full Name Mathias Micheel
Date of Birth 28th March 1989
Languages German (native speaker), English (fluent), French (B2)

Experience

  • 03/2024 – now
    Postdoctoral researcher
    Friedrich Schiller University Jena
    • Working as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Dr. Sebastian Engel in the BMBF-funded project Py-Pho-Hybrid Energy (Sinatra)
      • Investigation of inorganic hybrid nanomaterials for light-driven hydrogen production
  • 08/2023 – 01/2024
    Postdoctoral researcher
    University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)
    • Group of Prof. Dr. Maria Wächtler​
      • Investigation of molecular and nanostructured photocatalysts
      • Independent conception, realization and analysis of synthetic and spectroscopic experiments
  • 09/2014 – 02/2023
    Researcher
    Leibniz-Institute of Photonic Technology
    • PhD in the group of Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dietzek-Ivanŝiç (2014-2018, DFG project SPP 1568: Design and Generic Principles of Self-Healing Materials ) and postdoctoral researcher in the group of Dr. Maria Wächtler (DFG project TRR 234: Light-driven Molecular Catalysts in Hierarchically Structured Materials „CataLight“, GIF project „Ternary nanoscale hybrid systems for solar-driven overall water splitting“).
      • Characterization of self-healing polymers and nanoparticle hybrid materials for photo-redox chemistry
      • National and international, interdisciplinary project cooperation and coordination (laboratory visits to Mainz, Ulm and Haifa, Israel)
      • Presentation of results in scientific journals, conferences and project meetings/reports
      • Laboratory responsibility for chemistry and laser laboratories in an international research group
  • 08/2014
    Researcher
    Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Education

Qualifications

  • 2024
    Professional Scrum Master I
    scrum.org
  • 2024
    Scrum – Agiles Projektmanagement
    Lecturio

Event Organization

  • 2019 – 2025
    Bunsen-Tagung
    • programme commission (2023, 2024)
    • organization of yPC networking evening & yPC Forum (2022 – 2025)
    • session chair (2019, 2024)
  • 2022
    Lange Nacht der Wissenschaft
    • Conception of and collaboration on a stand for the DFG project “CataLight” at Leibniz-IPHT
  • 2020 – 2021
    CataLight Young Scientist Symposium (CYSS)
    • co-organizer of online conference for early career scientists
    • programme commission
    • session chair

Scientific Memberships

  • 2022 - now
    Deutsche Bunsengesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie (DBG)
    • young Physical Chemists (yPC)
      • early career organization of the Bunsengesellschaft
      • 2022 – 2024: chairperson
  • 2021 – now
    Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh)
  • 2023 – 2024
    American Chemical Society
  • 2016 – 2018
    Leibniz-IPHT PhD council
    • founding member and co-chairperson

Other Memberships

  • 2023 – now
    BÜNDNIS90/DIE GRÜNEN
  • 2017 – now
    Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND)
  • 2016 – 2022
    Piratenpartei Deutschland
  • 2007 (?) – 2018 (?)
    Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands
    • -'no idea when I joined and when I left'