About Us

'Department group picture 10/223 — RP Department group picture 10/2023 (courtesy to IPF Dresden, Emanual Richter)

PD Dr. Jens Gaitzsch

Jens is a habilitated group leader and Head of Department at the Leibniz-Institute of Polymer Research in Dresden. His main research interests are responsive hydrogels for microfluidics and functional polymers from radical ring-opening polymerisation. There is some history on self-assembly as well, which tends to be dragged along somehow. Google Scholar indices: h-index: 27, i-10 index: 46. A list of publications can be found here.

Dipl-Chem (= Master): 2009, PhD: 2013, Habilitation: 2025

Current group members

PhD students: Swadhin Chakrarborty, Doreen Hofmann, Laura Uhlig, Till Meißner, Swadhin Chakrarborty

Master student: Aniket Bukane, Leah Steger, Svenja Thömel

Good soul technician: Christiane Effenberg

Alumni (Name + first organisation after leaving the group)

Fabian Mehner (Uni Manchester), Yiyi Deng (Uni Paris-Saclay), Nikolai Liubimtsev (IPF Dresden), Joanna Magon (King’s College London), Anais Frezel (Uni Strasbourg), Zlata Zagradska-Paramova (TU Dresden), Tom Kösterke (IPF Dresden), Li Chen (TU Dresden), Julian Heinrich (TU Dresden), Jenny Folini (Roche), Sven Freimann (Uni Basel), Wigdan Murad (Uni Basel), Pascale Welsch (Novartis).

All past students were under the academic supervision of Prof. Dr. Brigitte Voit.
Email adresses: lastname(at)ipfdd.de or lastname-firstname(at)ipfdd.de.