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Since 2005, I've been working and researching in the field of synthesis, characterization, and application of artificial phospholipids. First on the academic side as a PhD student, research associate and independent group leader at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany – later as a deputy professor for Pharmaceutical Bioanalytics at the University of Greifswald, Germany. Since December 2019, I've been representing the Phospholipid Research Center Heidelberg, Germany as deputy managing director; and since February 2021, as managing director. I was also elected President of the newly formed DeChAt Local Chapter (Germany-Switzerland-Austria) of the Controlled Release Society in March 2024. Specialties: synthesis of artificial, i.e. not naturally occurring, mono- and bipolar (phospho)lipids including fully synthetic and partial biochemical approaches; physicochemical characterization of these lipids in 2D and 3D assemblies and their miscibility with each other and with 'classical' phospholipids, mainly using calorimetric methods (DSC), infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR, ATR), x-ray and neutron scattering techniques (SAXS, SANS), electron microscopy (TEM, cryo-EM, FFEM), and mass spectrometry; application of photo-reactive membrane lipids for the study of lipid/peptide and lipid/protein interactions as well as application of stabilized liposomes for (oral) drug delivery using, for example, modified bipolar phospholipids (bolalipids, bolaamphiphiles).

Listed skills include Organic Synthesis, Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Lipid, and 19 others.