Dr. Sebastian Seiffert

Sebastian Seiffert (FU Berlin)
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Scientific Background

  • Physical Chemistry
  • Polymer Physics

Current Affiliations

  • FU Berlin
  • Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
  • Harvard University

 

Scientific Career

Since 08/2012 Additional Affiliation:  Research Associate at Harvard University,
Dpt. of Physics & School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Since 01/2011

 

Research Group Leader, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and FU Berlin

  • Liebig Fellow of the Fund of the Chemical Industry
  • Research on Supramolecular and Sensitive Polymer Networks
  • Teaching Activities:
    • Physical Chemistry of Polymers
    • Photochemistry
    • Methods in Polymer Synthesis
    • Physical Organic Chemistry
    • Physikalische Chemie für das Lehramt
 

01/2009–12/2010

 

Postdoc with D. A. Weitz, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

  • Research Fellow of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Subject of Research:  Smart Polymer Microgels
 

01/2008–12/2008

 

Postdoc with W. Oppermann, Clausthal University of Technology

  • Subject of Research:  Structure and Dynamics in Polymer Gels
  • Lecturer on Structure and Dynamics in Polymer Systems
 

12/2007

 

PhD Degree, Clausthal University of Technology

  • Thesis: “Structure and Tracer Dynamics in Polyacrylamide Gels”
 

08/2004–12/2007

 

PhD Student with W. Oppermann, Clausthal University of Technology

  • Subject of Research:  Structure and Dynamics in Polymer Hydrogels
 

07/2004

 

Diploma in Chemistry, Clausthal University of Technology

  • Degree: Dipl.-Chem.
  • Diploma Thesis: “Diffusion of Linear Polyacrylamide Chains in Semidilute Systems”
 

10/2001

 

Intermediate Diploma in Chemistry, Clausthal University of Technology

 

10/1999–08/2004

 

Study of Chemistry at Clausthal University of Technology

 

 

Awards and Personal Grants

Since 01/2011

 

Liebig Fellowship by the Fund of the Chemical Industry

 

01/2009–12/2010

 

Postdoctoral Scholarship by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

 

10/2009

 

Dissertation Award by the Society of Friends of Clausthal University of Technology

 

02/2002

 

Nominee for Scholarship by the German National Academic Foundation

 

12/2001

 

Book Award of the German Chemical Society (GDCh)

 

 

Group Funding

01/2012–12/2013

 

Funding by the Focus Area NanoScale at FU Berlin

 

Since 01/2012

 

Funding by the Helmholtz Virtual Institute “Biomaterials for Medicine”

 

08/2011–07/2012

 

Funding by the Center for Supramolecular Interactions at FU Berlin

 

03/2011–12/2011

 

Funding by the Center for Cluster Development at FU Berlin

 

Since 01/2011

 

Liebig Fellowship by the Fund of the Chemical Industry

 

 

 

Letzte Aktualisierung: 06.03.2013