March 2026: Emilia Kühn ha just started in our team. Her background in microbiology is a perfect fit for her envisioned promotion.
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Mar
2026
Emilia has just started, welcome!
Linus Stegbauer
16
Jan
2026
Dirk, welcome!
January 2026: Our new PhD student Dirk Damaschke starts in Freiberg, I whish you a good start! He has just finished his diploma in Chemistry at the Plamper group at TUBAF. Congrats and welcome!
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Sep
2025
Let’s welcome Hendryk!
September 2025: Our new postdoc Dr. rer. nat. Hendryk Würfel has started. With his background in synthesis and polysaccharide modification he is a perfect addition to the team. Welcome
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Apr
2025
Job ad: Interested in an PhD?
We are looking for new members of our team in TUBAF. Please apply through
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Jan
2025
Welcome Jialin Tian & Enver Felix Loayza Mora!
January 2025: Our two new PhD students start in Freiberg, I whish you a good start! Jialin has a background in Material Chemistry with a Master Degree of the University of Jena and Felix has his Master degree from TU Berlin in Industrial Biotechnology. Welcome!
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Feb
2024
Welcome Qi!
February 2024: Qi has started her Master thesis. I welcome you! I am very happy to have you around and work on mineralizing mycelium. Have a great start!
Interested in joining as well? Explore the options and feel free to contact me.
02
Jan
2024
Congrat Nils for his first paper been accepted!
November 2023: Incredible, we were accepted at Small. The publication will be open-access. Nils did a tremendous amount of work for this. I heavily thank all the people involved.
Here is the link to the publication https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/smll.202308939
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Jun
2023
PhD or master student wanted for responsive biogenic materials synthesis project
May 2023: Would you like to design the materials of the future – biodegradable, light-tunable mechanics, non-toxic and at ambient conditions?
If you have a chemistry, physics, soft matter science, materials science, polymer or materials engineering background: Then join our interdisciplinary international group! Just send Linus an application with your cover letter, master certificate and master thesis!
10
Feb
2023
Amrita published the group’s first independent paper
January 2023: Amazing work, after just a single round of peer review we were accepted at Composites Science and Technology. The publication will be under open-access. I heavily thank all the people involved, especially our partner, the Insitute for Aircraft Egineering.
Here the link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0266353823000453?via%3Dihub
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Nov
2022
Matis has started his Bachelor’s thesis
Mathis has a technical biology background and work with Tugce. A good start!
Interested in joining as well? Explore the options and feel free to contact me.