Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. Franziska Lissel

Professor of Applied Polymer Physics
Chair of the Institute of Applied Polymer Physics (IAPP)

Head of Functional Electronic Materials Group (FEM)
IPF Independent Research Group Leader
Liebig Fellow of the Association of the Chemical Industry (until 2023)
TU Dresden Young Investigator (until 2023)
Acting Professor at the University of Jena (2020–2021)

Short Biography

Franziska Lissel is a Professor (W1 TT W3) of Applied Polymer Physics at the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) and the Chair of the Institute of Applied Polymer Physics (IAPP). She also heads the Functional Electronic Materials Group (FEM) within the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research (IPF). Prior to that, she was a TU Dresden Young Investigator, Liebig Fellow of the Association of the Chemical Industry (VCI), and Acting Professor at the Department of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry at the University of Jena. Her research focus is the field of functional electronic materials and comprises (1) soft polymer electronics: new design concepts for intrinsically stretchable and recyclable (semi)conducting polymers, which possess an elastic modulus matching biological tissue; (2) interfaces and molecular machines: electronically active hybrid materials by mediating the interface of metallic nanoparticles and conjugated surface ligands with N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs), and small molecules for single-molecule machinery and electronics; (3) materials for information and energy storage: in information storage, materials for rewritable nonvolatile memory devices are targeted while, in energy storage, the focus is on using oligomeric structures to build up electrodes; (4) polymer-enabled MALDI MS and MS imaging: polymeric matrices are developed, which enable the measurement of low molecular weight compounds, e.g., metabolites and pharmaceutical targets. Previously, she was a postdoctoral scholar in chemical engineering at Stanford University where she was associated with the Bao Research Group and at KAUST. She was graduated with a Ph.D. in the natural sciences (Dr. sc. nat.) on probing electronic properties through the specific design of organometallic molecules from University of Zurich in 2014 under the supervision of Professor Heinz Berke, a collaboration with the group of Dr. Heike Riel at IBM Research, and was affiliated with the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry at ETH Zurich. Prior to this, she studied biology and chemistry at the University of Bremen from where she earned a M.Sc. in chemistry (Dipl.-Chem.) in 2009. Among other achievements, Professor Lissel's serves as a principal investigator of two European Innovation Council (EIC) projects on Flexible IntelligenT NEar-field Sensing Skins (FITNESS) and Energy Storage in Molecules (ESiM). Her studies and research were awarded with several fellowships and research grants, for example by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences (SCNAT). Next to her academic research, she is actively performing technology transfer in collaboration with multiple industrial partners like IBM Research, Procter & Gamble, Samsung, and Schill+Seilacher.