Jun 04, 2024
Four new TUD Young Investigators
In spring, the University Executive Board of the TUD Dresden University of Technology awarded Dr. Manès Weisskircher, Dr. Andreas Schneemann, Dr. Minghao Yu and Dr. Markus Vorrath (née Henke) the status of TUD Young Investigators.
Dr. E.-F. Markus Vorrath (née Henke) (Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology) is Junior Research Group Leader of the Emmy Noether MEiTNER Group. Vorrath's research focuses on compliant, biomimetic robotic systems. The MEiTNER project is investigating multifunctional, flexible dielectric elastomers (DEs), so-called artificial muscles, for such robots.
Markus Vorrath received his diploma in mechatronics and his doctorate in electrical engineering from TU Dresden in 2010 and 2014. From 2015 to 2017, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Biomimetics Lab at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute in New Zealand as an MSCA and DAAD scholarship holder of the European Union. In September 2017, Dr. Vorrath returned to the Chair of Microsystems at TU Dresden.
Dr. Manès Weisskircher (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science) heads the BMBF junior research group "REXKLIMA: Far-right politics versus climate action" at the Institute of Political Science at TU Dresden. He is also an affiliated researcher at the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo and a visiting researcher at the Center for Civil Society Research, Berlin Social Science Center. His core research areas are social movements, political parties, democracy and far-right actors.
Manès Weisskircher received his doctorate from the European University Institute in Florence in 2019 and has taught at universities in Bonn, Bucharest, Düsseldorf and Vienna as well as at the Social Science College of the German National Academic Foundation.
Dr. Andreas Schneemann (Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry) is a Liebig Fellow of the Chemical Industry Fund and has headed the junior research group "Material Chemistry of Covalent Framework Compounds" since 2019. He is also a Principal Investigator in the Collaborative Research Center 1415 "Chemistry of Synthetic Two-Dimensional Materials", where he is working on the fundamental understanding and development of covalent-organic framework-based 2D materials.
Andreas Schneemann completed his doctorate at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in 2016, then worked as a post-doctoral researcher at TUD Dresden University of Technology in Munich and Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, USA, before moving to TU Dresden in 2019.
Dr. Minghao Yu (Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry) has been a research group leader at the Chair of Molecular Functional Materials at TU Dresden since 2019. His research focuses on the production of sustainable energy storage systems such as supercapacitors, hybrid ion capacitors, liquid batteries, dual-ion batteries and batteries with polyvalent metals.
Yu received his doctorate in materials physics and chemistry from Sun Yat-sen University (China) in June 2017 and then came to TUD as a postdoctoral researcher with the support of a Humboldt Research Fellowship. He has been included in Clarivate Analytics' list of the most cited scientists worldwide several times and has received numerous other awards.
The "TUD Young Investigator" status strengthens the position of excellent, independent Junior Research Group Leaders at the Dresden research location by integrating them more closely into the faculties and offering them a range of qualifications tailored specifically to their needs.
The aim is to counteract the structural disadvantages that independent Junior Research Group Leaders sometimes face due to their undefined status and the sometimes inadequate or complete lack of connection to a faculty.
Further information can be found at
https://tu-dresden.de/ga/die-einrichtung/news/vier-neue-tud-young-investigator
https://tu-dresden.de/forschung-transfer/wissenschaftlicher-nachwuchs/nach-der-promotion/tud-young-investigators