Alumni

Dr. André Platzek
former RTG PhD student
Bioinorganic Chemistry

E-Mail: andre2.platzek@tu-dortmund.de


Dr. Kristina Ebbert
former RTG PhD student
Bioinorganic Chemistry

E-Mail: kristina.ebbert@tu-dortmund.de


Dr. Lisa Schardt
former RTG PhD student and RTG postdoc (until February 2024)
Analytical Chemistry - Biointerfaces
Doctoral Thesis within the RTG: "Mobility, Coordination and Reaction in Confinement of Reverse Micelles and Polymerous Hydrogels"

E-Mail: Lisa.Schardt@rub.de


Dr. Anna Selina Juber
former RTG PhD student (until July 2023)
Theoretical Chemistry - Molecular Simulation
Doctoral Thesis within the RTG: "Confinement-controlled Structure-Dynamics-Property Relationships in Supramolecular Cages from Molecular Simulations"

E-Mail: anna.juber@rub.de


Prof. Dr. Dominik Marx
Former RTG PI (until December 2022)

Research Unit: Chair of Theoretical Chemistry, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
ORCID: -

Phone: +49-(0)234-32-28083
E-Mail: Dominik.Marx@rub.de


Prof. Dr. Christopher Stein
Former RTG PI (until November 2022)

Now W3 professor at TU München
Professor of Theoretical Chemistry
ORCID: 0000-0003-2050-4866

Phone: +49-(0)203-37-98212
E-Mail: christopher.stein@tum.de


Dr. Niclas Blanc
former RTG PhD student (until November 2022)
Analytical Chemistry II - Nanoelectrochemistry
Doctoral Thesis within the RTG: "Complementary Analysis of Nanoscale Electrochemical Systems by Numerical Simulations and Experiments"

Phone: +49-(0)234-32-19047
E-Mail: Niclas.Blanc@rub.de


Dr. Thorsten Ockelmann
former RTG PhD student (until October 2022)
Physical Chemistry II
Doctoral Thesis within the RTG: "Changes of time-resolved solvent dynamics of excited-state proton-transfer by confinement as revealed by optical-pump Terahertz-probe spectroscopy"

Phone: +49-(0)234-32-19060
E-Mail: Thorsten.Ockelmann@rub.de


Dr. Maximilian Jaugstetter
former RTG PhD student (until August 2022)
Analytical Chemistry II - Nanoelectrochemistry
Doctoral Thesis within the RTG: "Guest Stabilized Reverse Micelles as Electroactive Nanoreactors: A Journey into Ion Mediated Self-Assembly, Confinement Effects and their Use in Nanoparticle Synthesis"

E-Mail: Maximilian.Jaugstetter@rub.de


Dr. Kevin Scholten
former RTG PhD student (until July 2022)
Organic Chemistry II - Chirality and Vibrational Optical Activity
Doctoral Thesis within the RTG: "Synthesis and VCD spectroscopic characterization of chiral TREN-based transition metal complexes and supramolecular structures"

Phone: +49-(0)234-32-24422
E-Mail: Kevin.Scholten@rub.de


Dr. Kevin Wonner
former RTG PhD student (until September 2022)
Analytical Chemistry II - Nanoelectrochemistry
Doctoral Thesis within the RTG: "In Situ Monitoring of Electrochemical Reactions at a Single Entity Level by Dark-Field Microscopy and Hyperspectral Imaging"

Phone: +49-(0)234-32-19047
E-Mail: Kevin.Wonner@rub.de


Dr. Patricia Gnutt
former RTG PhD student (until May 2022)
Analytical Chemistry - Biointerfaces
Doctoral Thesis within the RTG: "Synthesis and characterization of PDMS based environmental benign coatings and structural analysis of polymer monomers in reverse micelles"

E-Mail: Patricia.Palitza@rub.de


Sarah Funke
former RTG PhD student (until November 2021)
Physical Chemistry II
Research Topic: B6: Chemistry in Confinement Characterized by THz Spectroscopy

E-Mail: Sarah.Funke@rub.de


Dr. Irene Regeni
former RTG Postdoc (until December 2021)

Now Postdoc at Universiteit Leiden
Metals in Catalysis, Biomimetics & Inorganic Materials

Phone: +31-715-27-4466
E-Mail: i.regeni@lic.leidenuniv.nl


Dr. Tim Schleif
former RTG Postdoc (until June 2021)

Now Postdoc at Yale University
Mass-Selective Vibrational Spectroscopy and Cryogenic Ion Processing

E-Mail: tim.schleif@yale.edu


Dr. Sergi Ruiz Barragán
former RTG Postdoc (until August 2021)

Now Postdoc at the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis (IQCC) in Girona, Spain

Phone: 972 41 95 40
E-Mail: sergi@iqc.udg.edu


Dr. Luisa Weirich
former RTG PhD student (until March 2022)

Organic Chemistry II - Chirality and Vibrational Optical Activity
Doctoral thesis within the RTG: „Vibrational Circular Dichroism (VCD) Studies on Hydrogen-bonded Clusters in the Context of Solvation and Supramolecular Aggregation“

Office: NC 4/126
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Phone: +49-(0)234-32-24422
E-Mail: Luisa.Weirich@rub.de


Dr. Sonja Pullen
former RTG Postdoc (until December 2020)

Now Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam
Homogeneous, Supramolecular and Bio-Inspired Catalysis - Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences

Phone: +31-(0)205-25-6459
Email: s.pullen@uva.nl


Abhishek Chattopadhyay
former RTG PhD student (until September 2020)

Now PhD Student at TU Darmstadt
Computational Physical Chemistry

Phone: +49-(0)615-11-621223
E-Mail: chattopadhyay@cpc.tu-darmstadt.de


Niklas Sülzner
former RTG PhD student (until July 2019)

Now PhD Student at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Theoretical Chemistry - The Quantum Chemistry Group

Office: NC 02/74
Phone: +49-(0)234-32-24250
E-Mail: niklas.suelzner@theochem.ruhr-uni-bochum.de


Prof. Dr. Patrick Nürnberger
former RTG PI (until March 2019)

Now W3-Professor at the Universität Regensburg
Chair of Physical Chemistry I
ORCID: 0000-0002-4690-0229

Phone: +49-(0)941-94-34486
E-Mail: patrick.nuernberger@ur.de