Polymer Emulsions, Surfaces and Interfaces

Andreas Walther (*1980) is a Professor for Functional Polymers at the Institute for Macromolecular Chemistry at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg (Germany).
His research interests concentrate on developing and understanding hierarchical self-assembly concepts inside and outside equilibrium, and on using them to create Active, Adaptive and Autonomous Bioinspired Material Systems – A3BMS.

He graduated from Bayreuth University in Germany in 2008 with a Ph.D. focusing on the self-assembly behavior and applications of Janus particles and other soft, complex colloids. After a postdoctoral stay with a focus on biomimetic hybrid materials at Aalto University (Helsinki, Finland), he returned to Germany (2011), and established his independent research group at the DWI – Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials in Aachen. In 2016 he was appointed to his present position in Freiburg.

A. Walther has published close to 130 papers (h-index 44) and has recently been awarded the Bayer Early Excellence in Science Award (for Materials), the Reimund Stadler Young Investigator Award of the German Chemical Society, a BMBF NanoMatFutur Research Group, and an ERC Starting Grant. He is a fellow of both the Freiburg as well as the Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Studies.

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Bart Jan Ravoo (1970) obtained his graduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He graduated in physical organic chemistry in 1994 and obtained his PhD degree in 1998 under joint supervision of Prof. Jan Engberts and Dr. Wilke Weringa. His PhD thesis concerned vesicles of polymerizable lipids. During this period, he was a visiting student in Göttingen, Marseille, Leicester and Haifa. He moved to University College Dublin, Ireland, in 1999 for a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Raphael Darcy. In the summer of 1999 he obtained the Schering-Plough Newman Scholarship in Organic Chemistry at University College Dublin for a period of three years. His work in Ireland centered on cyclodextrins as building blocks for supramolecular assembly. In 2002 he was appointed as assistant professor in the Laboratory of Supramolecular Chemistry and Technology (Director: Prof. David Reinhoudt) at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. His main research topics in Twente included self-assembly and molecular recognition in water and the development of functional self-assembled monolayers for nanoelectronics, soft lithography and nanofabrication. In 2007, he was appointed as professor at the University of Münster, Germany, where he is in charge of the “Synthesis of Nanoscale Systems” group. From 2012 until 2014 he served as Dean of the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy and since 2016 he is co-director of the Center for Soft Nanoscience (SoN).

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Dr Muriel Lansalot completed a Ph.d in Polymer Chemistry at Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris. Her current areas of research are conventional and controlled radical polymerization in dispersed media (emulsion, miniemulsion, dispersion) and Synthesis and characterization of hybrid colloids and nanocomposites using heterophase polymerization techniques (dispersion, emulsion and miniemulsion polymerizations).

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