Katharina Landfester is a German chemist who is a professor at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research. Her research considers the physical properties of droplets, polymerisation in emulsion and the synthesis of nanoparticles.
Katharina Landfester | |
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| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research |
| Scientific career | |
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| Thesis | Synthese und Charakterisierung von Kern-Mantel-Latices mit Elektronenmikroskopie und Festkörper-NMR (1995) |
| Website | Landfester Group |
Early life and education edit
Landfester studied chemistry at the Technical University of Darmstadt and graduated in 1993.[1] During her undergraduate degree she was a research intern at the École européenne de chimie, polymères et matériaux (then Ecole d’Application des Hauts Polymères). She joined the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research as a graduate student, where she worked with Hans W. Spiess on the characterisation of polymers using solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance. She moved to the United States as a postdoctoral researcher, where she joined Lehigh University. She returned to Germany, where she joined the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces and oversaw the emulsion group.[citation needed]
Research and career edit
Landfester joined the University of Ulm as a full professor and head of the Department of Organic Chemistry. Whilst at the university, she started to explore materials for biomedical applications, with a focus on better understanding the interactions of nanoparticles with cellular compartments.[2] By 2008 she had been appointed director of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research.
Landfester has studied colloids with precisely controlled physical properties.[3] Colloids are particles suspended in a liquid, and can permit the encapsulation of therapeutic and self-healing agents as well as the creation of specific nanostructures.[3] She is interested in the creation of protocells – vesicular structures that are generally considered the minimal units of synthetic biology – from self-assembled block copolymers.[4] These block copolymers contain permeable nanocontainers that can act as cell-like functions.[4]
Awards and honours edit
- 2001 Reimund Stadler prize[5]
- 2002 University of Potsdam Habilitation in Physical Chemistry[6]
- 2002 Member of the Junge Akademie[7]
- 2010 Elected to AcademiaNet[8]
- 2011 Elected member of Acatech[9]
Selected publications edit
- Tenzer, Stefan; Docter, Dominic; Kuharev, Jörg; Musyanovych, Anna; Fetz, Verena; Hecht, Rouven; Schlenk, Florian; Fischer, Dagmar; Kiouptsi, Klytaimnistra; Reinhardt, Christoph; Landfester, Katharina (2013-09-22). "Rapid formation of plasma protein corona critically affects nanoparticle pathophysiology". Nature Nanotechnology. 8 (10): 772–781. Bibcode:2013NatNa...8..772T. doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.181. ISSN 1748-3387. PMID 24056901.
- Antonietti, M; Landfester, K (2002). "Polyreactions in miniemulsions". Progress in Polymer Science. 27 (4): 689–757. doi:10.1016/S0079-6700(01)00051-X.
- Landfester, Katharina (2009). "Miniemulsion Polymerization and the Structure of Polymer and Hybrid Nanoparticles". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 48 (25): 4488–4507. doi:10.1002/anie.200900723. ISSN 1521-3773. PMID 19455531.
- Schöttler, Susanne; Becker, Greta; Winzen, Svenja; Steinbach, Tobias; Mohr, Kristin; Landfester, Katharina; Mailänder, Volker; Wurm, Frederik R. (2016). "Protein adsorption is required for stealth effect of poly(ethylene glycol)- and poly(phosphoester)-coated nanocarriers". Nature Nanotechnology. 11 (4): 372–377. Bibcode:2016NatNa..11..372S. doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.330. ISSN 1748-3395. PMID 26878141.
References edit
- ^ "Prof. Dr. Katharina Landfester | Center for INnovative and Emerging MAterials". www.cinema.uni-mainz.de. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
- ^ "Confirmed Invited Speakers › Women for Women". Retrieved 2020-10-04.
- ^ a b "Physical Chemistry of Polymers". www.mpip-mainz.mpg.de. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
- ^ a b "NCCR Lecture series: Katharina Landfester". NCCR in Chemical Biology. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
- ^ "Prof. Dr. Katharina Landfester - AcademiaNet". www.academia-net.org. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
- ^ "Director". www.mpip-mainz.mpg.de. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
- ^ "Katharina Landfester - Members - Die Junge Akademie". www.diejungeakademie.de. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
- ^ "Prof. Dr. Katharina Landfester - AcademiaNet". www.academia-net.org. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
- ^ "Katharina Landfester Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung". acatech - National Academy of Science and Engineering. Retrieved 2020-10-04.