Team

Team

Prof. Dr. Miriam Unterlass

Principal Investigator

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Phone: +49 7531  88-4415

Room: L703

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Daniel Cerron Infantes

Lab Manager

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Phone: +49 7531  88-2368

Room: L719

Post office box: 713

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Elana Harbalik

Technician

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Phone: +49 7531  88-2006

Room: L740

Post office box: 713

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Leimhofer Lukas

Technician

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Responsibilities

Lukas studied technical chemistry in Vienna, Austria. Lukas joined us for the first time in 2015, the working on sustainable hybrid materials’ synthesis and processing. In his current main projects, Lukas works on the hydrothermal synthesis of small molecules for application in biology.

Lexner Martina

Administrative Assistant

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Martina joined us in 2019. She supports Prof. Unterlass with the project management and administration of our third-party funding projects.

Danica Drpic

Project Scientist

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Danica studied Molecular Biology and Physiology in Belgrade, Serbia. She obtained her PhD in Cell biology in 2017, in University of Porto, Portugal. Danica joined our group in October 2023 as a project scientist to characterize hydrothermally synthesized cell dyes in vitro.

Robert Pazdzior Ph.D.

Postdoc

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Phone: +49 7531  88-2006

Room: L740

Post office box: 713

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Robert studied Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada. He obtained his PhD in 2022 at the CeMM  Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Science in Vienna, Austria. Robert joined us in 2022. In his main project, he develops an automated platform for the discovery and optimization of syntheses in water.

Fabián Amaya García

PhD Student

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Phone: +49 7531  88-2006

Room: L740

Post office box: 713

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Olivier Gazil

PhD Student

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Phone: +49 7531  88-2006

Room: L0740

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Frank Sailer

PhD Student

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Phone: +49 7531  88-2006

Room: L740

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Jessica Geppert

PhD Student

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Jessica studied Nanoscience at the University of Konstanz. She started her PhD in August 2022 in the group of Prof. Helmut Cölfen before joining us in January 2024 to continue with her PhD Thesis. In her project, she develops new strategies for the synthesis of multi-elemental colloidal nanocrystals with a focus on metal chalcogenides and oxides as well as their heterostructures with metals and their subsequent investigation of properties.

Nick Sokov

PhD Student

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Nick studied Chemistry at the University of Konstanz. He started his PhD in the research group of Prof. Helmut Cölfen and joined us in January 2024 to continue his PhD thesis. In his project, he develops polymers for the stabilization and assembly of metal nanoparticles.

Lukas Zeyffert

PhD Student

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Lukas studied chemistry at the University of Konstanz and started his PhD in the research group of the Prof. Helmut Cölfen before joining our group in January 2024. His research focuses on the hydrothermal synthesis of MAX-phase-derived organic-anorganic hybrid materials.

Florian Vollstädt

PhD Student

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Phone: +49 7531  88-2006

Room: L740

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Frederic Hallmann

MSc Student

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Frederic studies Chemistry at the University of Konstanz. He first joined our group in August 2022 for an internship and has returned in June 2023 for his master thesis. He will be working on developing Sulfur containing high performance materials.

Maximilian Schürmann

MSc Student

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Phone: +49 7531  88-2006

Room: L740

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Margherita Balma

Master Student

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Phone: +49 7531  88-2006

Room: L740

Post office box: L713

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Margherita is doing her master in chemistry at the university of Konstanz after finishing her bachelor in Pisa, Italy. She joined our group in October 2023 for her Master thesis. She will work on the developing of hydrothermal synthesis protocols for Zircon-organic pigment hybrid materials, and subsequent characterisation

Lena Schittenhelm

Master Student

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Lena studies chemistry at the University of Konstanz. She first joined our group in November 2022 for an internship and has returned in October 2023 for her master thesis, which focuses on the synthesis of small organic molecules featuring heterocyles.

Simon Meier

Master Student

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Simon studies chemistry at the University of Konstanz. He joined our research group in October 2023 for his master thesis to work on Delafossite-based inorganic-organic hybrid materials, using hydro-/solvothermal synthesis.

Patricia Bächtle

Master student

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Patricia is currently doing Masters studies in Life Science at the University of Konstanz. She joined our group in January 2024 for her Master thesis. In her project, she synthesizes lockdown-related molecules and their structure-activity relationship on human phosphatases.

Celine Kuchler

MSc Student

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Tobias Klenk

MSc Student

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Yurii Kolbediuk

Research assistant (HiWi)

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Yurii studied chemistry at the Donetsk National University, Ukraine, where he performed his thesis on biologically active compounds and graduated in 2018. He continued his studies at the University of Konstanz. He joined our group in June 2023 as a research assistant. In his project he works on minerals, with a special focus on X-ray crystallographic analysis.

Hannah Mehringer

Research Intern (HiWi)

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Hannah is currently studying a Master in Chemistry at the University of Konstanz. She joined our group in February 2024 as a research intern. Her project deals with the characterization of structure-fluorescence properties relationship of small molecules.

Claudia Treinen

MSc Research Intern

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Claudia studies Chemistry at the University of Konstanz. She joined our group in March 2024 for a master internship. Her project deals with pulsed laser-assisted doping of CdS Nanocrystals.

We are always interested in highly motivated and dedicated coworkers.

Currently we have plenty of interesting opportunities for Master and Bachelor theses. Please contact us to learn more about the currently available topics. Future position openings will be announced.