Former Group Leaders in UniSysCat - Goodbye & Good Luck!

Dr. Ariane Nunes Alves

Units: B, C
Expertise: Molecular modeling and simulation of ligand-protein interactions

 

Dr. Nunes Alves has accepted an offer from the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Brazilian Bioscienses National Laboratory (LNBio), for a position as Lead Researcher of the Computational Biology Group. Expanding on her work at UniSysCat, she focuses on developing and applying methods to simulate crowded and cellular environments.

Prof. Dr. Nediljko Budisa

Units: B, C, E
Expertise: protein modification by non-natural amino acids

 

Prof. Dr. Budisa moved to the University of Manitoba (Canada), where he holds a Full Professorship and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Cheical Syntetic Biology and Xenobiology. His research focuses on genetic code engineering and chemical synthetic biology, developing in vivo approaches to introduce non-canonical amino acids into proteins.

Dr. Tobias Gensch

Units: A, D
Expertise: Organometallic Chemistry, Homogeneous catalysis, statistical modeling, computational chemistry

 

Dr. Gensch has joined CreativeQuantum, where he operates at the interface of computational chemistry and data-driven modeling. His work focuses on combining machine learning with computational chemistry to predict and optimize chemical processes.

Dr. Walid Hetaba

Units: A
Expertise: Transmission Electron Microscopy, Electron Energy Loss Spectrometry, EELS Simulations

 

Dr. Hetaba has accepted an offer from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (MPICEC) for a position as Group Leader of Electron Microscopy and XPS. In a joint project with UniSysCat, his group investigates bimetallic nanocatalysts to determine the influence of particle morphology on selectivity and conversion in individual reactions.

Prof. Dr. Bettina G. Keller

Units: E
Expertise:  Molecular dynamics simulations

 

 

Prof. Dr. Keller continues her work at the Freie Universität Berlin, where she leads a research group in physical and theoretical chemistry.

Prof. Dr. Shuang Li

Units: A, E
Expertise: metal-organic hybrid materials, mesoporous metal carbide/nitride, electrocatalysis

 

Prof. Dr. Li obtained a professorship at the College of Polymer Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Sichuan University (China). Her research expands on her work at UniSysCat on metal-organic precursor design for electrocatalytic water splitting and extends it to related areas such as waste polymer reconstruction, polysufide conversion and CO2 hydrogenation catalysis.

Prof. Dr. Martin Oschatz

Units: A
Expertise: synthesis of nanoporous materials and electrode materials, single-site electrocatalysts, nanoparticle synthesis

 

Prof. Dr. Oschatz has been appointed professor at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, where he leads a research group in materials for energy conversion. His research focuses on the design and synthesis of porous and nanostructured materials, particularly carbon-based systems, for applications in catalysis or energy storage.

Dr. Bartholomäus Pieber

Units: D
Expertise: Photocatalysis, Organic Chemistry, Flow Chemistry

Prof. Dr. Frieder W. Scheller

Units: C
Expertise: enzyme electrochemistry

Prof. Dr. Robert Schlögl

Units: A, D
Expertise: electron microscopy, X-ray spectroscopy, catalyst characterization

Dr. Matthias Schwalbe

Units: A, D
Expertise: electro- and photocatalysis and artificial photosynthesis

Prof. Dr. Roderich Süssmuth

Units: B
Expertise: enzymology and analytics of ribosomal peptide biosynthesis

Prof. Dr. Christian Spahn

Units: B, E
Expertise: macromelcular machines, 3D cryo-electron microscopy

Prof. Dr. Johannes F. Teichert

Units: A
Expertise:  Homogeneous Catalysis, Organic Chemistry, Organometallic Chemistry, Sustainable Chemistry

Prof. Dr. Inez Weidinger

Units: A, D
Expertise: Electrocatalysis, Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy, spectro-electrochemistry

 

Prof. Dr. Ulla Wollenberger

Units: B, C
Expertise: Protein electrochemistry, Bioelectrocatalysis, Biosensors