Prof. Dr. Annette M. Schmidt
Curriculum Vitae
- since April 2010: Professor for Physical Chemistry at the Universität zu Köln
- WS 2009/2010: Stand-in Professor for Organic Chemistry at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
- February 2009: Habilitation at the Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
- since 2002: Managment of the "Smart Nanosized Materials" team, Institut für Organische Chemie und Makromolekulare Chemie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
- May 1998 - November 2001: PhD Thesis "Biodegradable Polymer Network Systems with Shape Memory Effect and Crystallizable Switching Segment"; Deutsches Wollforschungsinstitut (DWI) an der RWTH Aachen, supervised by Prof. Dr. Hartwig Höcker
- October 1997 - March 1998: Diploma thesis "Development of Semi-interpenetrating Polymer Networks for Medical Applications", supervised by Prof. Dr. Hartwig Höcker, RWTH Aachen, and Prof. Dr. Robert Langer, MIT Cambridge, USA
- October 1991- March 1998: Chemistry studies at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen, and Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands.
Grants and Awards
- Emmy Noether Grand of the DFG (2007 - 2010)
- Reimund-Stadler-Award of the Macromolecular Chemistry Division within the GDCh (2006)
- Liebig-Grant of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (2002 - 2006)
- The PhD thesis was awarded with the Borchers-Medal of the RWTH Aachen (2002)
- Thesis Grant of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Bonn (1999 - 2001)
- Grant of the Gradiuertenförderung of the federal state of Northrhine-Wesphalia (1998)
- The diploma thesis (1998) was awarded with the Springorum-Medal of the Verein der Freunde und Förderer der RWTH Aachen e.V. and the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Award der Friedrich-Wilhelm-Stiftung, Aachen
- Sokrates-Grant of the European Union (1995 - 1996)
Conference and Workshop Organization
- PhD.net Workshop “Frontiers of Nanocomposite Materials II”, Nov 22 – Dec 06, 2009, Zaragoza, Spain, with Joaquin Coronas and Claudia Staudt
- 9. Deutscher Ferrofluid-Workshop, Sep 22 – 25, 2009, Benediktbeuern, Germany, with Stefan Odenbach
- ERA NanoSci+ Net “MagNaSwimmers” Kick-Off meeting, April 2009, Düsseldorf, Germany
- PhD.net Workshop “Frontiers of Nanocomposite Materials I”, Nov 21 – Dec 04, 2008, Düsseldorf, Germany, with Joaquin Coronas and Claudia Staudt
Memberships
- DFG-SFB TR6: “Physics of Colloids in External Fields”, collaborative research center of the universities of Düsseldorf, Mainz, Konstanz and Utrecht, and of the Forschungszentrum Jülich, 2009 - 2011 http://www.sfb-tr6.de/
- ERA NanoSci+: “MagNaSwimmers”, European collaborative project, 2009 -
- DFG-SPP 1259: “Intelligent Hydrogels”, German priority research program, 2006 - http://spp-hydrogele.bci.uni-dortmund.de/
- Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh), 1998 - http://www.gdch.de/gdch.htm
- American Chemical Society (ACS), 2004 - http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content
- American Physical Society (APS), 2008 - http://www.aps.org/