Dr. Hendryk Würfel is currently working at the Institute of Nanoscale and Biobased Materials at the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg.
Before that, he was a postdoc at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena in the working group of Prof. Thomas Heinze and, as part of a funding programme of the Fachagentur für Nachwachsende Rohstoffe e.V., pectin hydrazide as a platform for the modular structure and property design of bio-based and sustainable materials and functional polymers (PekSEMF).
He is also working at Chemnitz University of Technology as a postdoc with Prof. Stefan Spange on the synthesis and characterisation of reactive dicarbonyl compounds in combination with structural analysis of hybrid and composite materials.
He obtained his doctorate in 2012 under the supervision of PD. Dr Dieter Weiß at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena on the topic: “Synthesis and characterisation of new, functional fluorophores for biochemical applications”.
He completed his diploma thesis, which dealt with the optimisation of firefly luciferin synthesis, in 2009.
He has published more than 20 papers in peer-reviewed journals.