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General Information
Full Name | Mathias Micheel |
Date of Birth | 28th March 1989 |
Languages | German (native speaker), English (fluent), French (B2) |
Experience
- 01/2023 – 02/2023
Postdoctoral researcher
Leibniz-Institute of Photonic Technology
- Group of Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dietzek-Ivanšić
- Reorganization og Chemistry of Materials practical lab course
- 10/2018 – 12/2022
Postdoctoral researcher
Leibniz-Institute of Photonic Technology
- Group of Group of Dr. Maria Wächtler
- Collaborative Research Center/Transregio (SFB / TRR) 234 CataLight
- Semiconductor nanoparticles for light-driven hydrogen evolution
- Transient absorption spectroscopy to investigate electron transfer processes
- Immobilization of nanoparticles in polymer matrices
- Assembly of nanoparticles into ordered films
- 09/2014 – 09/2018
Doctoral researcher
Leibniz-Institute of Photonic Technology
- Group of Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dietzek
- SPP1568 (Design and Generic Principles of Self-healing materials)
- Steady-state absorption spectroscopy on thin polymer films and solutions
- Investigation of photochemical degradation pathways
- Time resolved (fs to ns) absorption and photoluminescence spectroscopy on polymer solutions and thin films
- 08/2014
Researcher
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
- Group of Prof. Dr. Peter Gilch
- Photochemical conversion of a DNA damage analogue molecule
- Group of Prof. Dr. Peter Gilch
Education
- 2019
Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.)
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
- magna cum laude
- Thesis: Photophysical Characterization of Dynamically Linked Polymers for Self-Healing Applications (doi: 10.22032/dbt.39209) under supervision of Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dietzek (now Dietzek-Ivanšić)
- 2014
M.Sc. Chemistry
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
- Thesis: Substituenteneinfluss auf die Photochemie von 2(1H)-Pyrimidinon (Influence of substituents on the photochemistry of 2(1H)-pyrimidinone) under supervision of Prof. Dr. Peter Gilch
- Focus on Advanced Materials, Spectroscopy, and Photochemistry
- 2012
B.Sc. Business chemistry
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
- Thesis: Entwicklung von Solarzellen sensibilisiert mit Donor-Akzeptor-Farbstoffsystemen (Development of donor-acceptor-dye-sensitized solar cells) under supervision of Prof. Dr. Karl Kleinermanns
- 2008
A-Level (Abitur, 1.8)
Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff-Gymnasium Gelsenkirchen
Memberships
- 2016 – 2018
Leibniz-IPHT PhD council
- founding member and co-chairperson
- 2017 – now
Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND)
- regular member
- 2021 – now
Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh)
- regular member
- 2022 - now
Deutsche Bunsengesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie (DBG)
- regular member
- 2022 - now
young Physical Chemists (yPC)
- youth organization of the Bunsengesellschaft
- 2022 - now: chairperson