New Eleonore-Trefftz-Visiting-Professor at the chair

April 1 - September 30, 2016
Department of Chemistry and Food Chemistry

Katja Loos is Professor of Polymer Chemistry at the Chair of Macromolecular Chemistry and New Polymer Materials and at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She completed her diploma degree in Chemistry at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz in 1996, and was awarded her doctorate in 2001 at the Universität Bayreuth. She has been a professor at Groningen since 2003, following a postdoctoral stay (working with Prof. Ulman) at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Brooklyn.

Her research interests include the production of customised polymers using new, environmentally-friendly bio-catalytic methods. Prof. Loos is known predominantly for her key contributions in the field of enzymatic polymerisation and the study of self-organisation of polymers.

Her stay as Eleonore Trefftz Visiting Professor will support teaching and research at the Department of Chemistry and Food Chemistry in the field of bio-catalysis and sustainable production methods of synthetic materials. In joint projects with the Chair of Macromolecular Chemistry, new approaches in enzymatic catalysis and the design of carrier materials will be explored [Source: TU Dresden's Institutional Strategy]

More information: The Eleonore-Trefftz-programme