Dr. Sanchita Sengupta

Masters Thesis at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India 2006

Doctoral Thesis at the University of Würzburg 2011:
"Bio-inspired Zinc Chlorin Dye Assemblies for Supramolecular Electronics"

Since April 2012 postdoctoral position at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

Dr. Ulrich Mayerhöffer

Diploma Thesis at the University of Würzburg 2008:
"Synthese von Bis(merocyanin)farbstoffen und deren Selbstorganisation in helicale Farbstoffaggregate"

Doctoral Thesis at the University of Würzburg 2012:
"Synthese, Eigenschaften und funktionale Anwendungen von NIR absorbierenden Squarainen"

Since 2012 at Lonza Group AG, Visp, Switzerland

Dr. Hannah Bürckstümmer

Diploma Thesis at the University of Würzburg 2007:
"Synthese Donor-substituierter Naphthalsäureanhydride für Farbstoff-sensibilisierte Solarzellen"

Doctoral Thesis at the University of Würzburg 2011:
"Merocyanine Dyes for Solution-Processed Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells"

Since July 2011 at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

Dr. Ralf Schmidt

Diploma Thesis at the University of Würzburg in 2006:
"H-Brücken gebundene Farbstoffassoziate"

Doctoral Thesis at the University of Würzburg 2011:
"Hamilton-Receptor Mediated Self-Assembly of Merocyanine Dyes into
Supramolecular Polymers"

Since 2011 at Total S. A. Berlin, Germany

Dr. Xue-Qing Li

Diploma Thesis at the Department of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, 2002

Doctoral Thesis at the University of Würzburg 2009
"Hydrogen Bond-directed Self-assembly of Perylene Bisimide Organogelators"

March 2010 - June 2011 at the University Bern, Switzerland.
Since July 2011 at "BASF Polyurethane Specialties Company Ltd", Shanghai, China.

Dr. Theo E. Kaiser

Diploma Thesis at the University of Regensburg in 2004
"Synthese bimolekularer heterocyclischer π-Systeme und Untersuchung der substrukturellen Wechselwirkungen"

Doctoral Thesis at the University of Würzburg in 2009:
"J-Aggregates of Tetraphenoxy-Substituted Perylene Bisimide Dyes"

Since Juli 2009 at "rent a scientist GmbH", Regensburg, Germany

Dr. Andreas Lohr

Diploma Thesis at the University of Ulm in 2003:
"Synthese dipolarer Pinzetten und Makrocyclen auf Basis von Merocyaninfarbstoffen"

PhD Work at the University of Würzburg in 2008:
"Self-Assembly of Merocyanines: Thermodynamic and Kinetic Insights into the Formation of  Well-Defined Dye Aggregates"

2008-2009: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge/MA, USA
Since 2010: Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

Dr. Rüdiger Schmidt

Diploma Thesis at the University of Würzburg in 2003:
"Synthese von Anthra- und Pentacenderivaten mit Trialkoxyphenylethinylsubstituenten"

Doctoral Thesis at the University of Würzburg in 2008:
"Perylene Bisimide and Acene Derivatives as Organic Semiconductors in OTFTs"

Since April 2008 at BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany

Dr. Johann Schmidt

Diploma Thesis at the University of Karlsruhe in 2002:
"Untersuchungen zur Darstellung von Cp*-substituierten Phosphor- Übergangsmetall-Komplexen"

Doctoral Thesis at the University of Würzburg in 2008:
"Wasserstoffbrücken-gesteuerte Assoziation von Merocyaninfarbstoffen für photorefraktive Materialien"

Since August 2008 at Sika Schweiz AG, Zürich, Switzerland

Dr. Cornelia Röger

Diploma Thesis at the University of Würzburg in 2003:
"Synthese eines Carotinoid-funktionalisierten Chlorophylls"

Doctoral Thesis at the University of Würzburg in 2007:
"Self-Organizing Light Harvesting Systems Based on Dye-Functionalized Zinc Chlorins"

Since October 2007 at BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany

Dr. Catharina Hippius

Diploma Thesis at the University of Jena in 2002:
"Neuartig substituierte 4H-Imidazole und ihre Eignung als Komplexliganden"

Doctoral Thesis at the University of Würzburg in 2007:
"Multichromophoric Arrays of Perylene Bisimide Dyes - Synthesis and Optical Properties"

Since October 2007 at  BASF SE, Singapore

Dr. Valerie Huber

Doctoral Thesis at the University of Wuerzburg in 2007:
"Selbstorganisation von semisynthetischen Zinkchlorinen zu biomimetischen Lichtsammelsystemen und definierten Nanostrukturen"

Since November 2007 at Siemens AG, Frankfurt, Germany

Dr. Peter Osswald

Diploma Thesis at the University of Ulm in 2002:
"Synthese von Oligoethylenglycolsubstituierten 1,6,7,12-Tetraphenoxy-Perylenbisimiden"

Doctoral Thesis at the University of Wuerzburg in 2007:
"Perylene Bisimide Atropisomers: Synthesis and Optical and Chiroptical Properties"

Since 2007 at 3M ESPE AG, Seefeld am Ammersee, Germany

Prof. Dr. Zhijian Chen

Diploma Thesis at the Institute of Photographic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing University in 1999:
"The structure and the morphology of the phospholipid monolayer and the phospholipid monolayer mixed with protein"

Doctoral Thesis at the University of Würzburg in 2006:
"π-Stacks Based on Self-Assembled Perylene Bisimides: Structural, Optical, and Electronic Properties"

2007-2009: University of Rochester, Center for Optoelectronics and Imaging, New York, USA.
Since 6/2009: Tianjin University, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin, China.

Dr. Rainer Dobrawa

Diploma Thesis at the University of Ulm in 2000:
"Synthese von 2,2':6',2''-Terpyridin-funktionalisierten Perylenbisimiden"

Doctoral Thesis at the University of Würzburg in 2004:
"Synthesis and Characterization of Terpyridine-based Coordination Polymers"

2004 - 2010: BASF SE, Polymer Research, Ludwigshafen, Germany
since 2010: BASF SE,  Care Chemicals and Formulators, Ludwigshafen,
Germany

Dr. Christoph Thalacker

Diploma Thesis at the University of Ulm in 1997:
Synthese von Benzodipyrrolidonen als chromophore supramolekulare Bausteine

Doctoral Thesis at the University of Ulm in 2001:
"Supramolecular Assemblies of Naphtalene an Perylene Bisimide Dyes Based on Hydrogen Bonding and π-π-Interactions"

Since 2001 at 3M ESPE AG, Seefeld am Ammersee, Germany

Dr. Armin Sautter

Diploma Thesis at the University of Ulm in 1997:
"Synthese substituierter Perylene als funktionelle supramolekulare Bausteine"

Doctoral Thesis at the University of Ulm in 2001:
"Cyclic and Infinite Supramolecular Assemblies Based on Diazoaromatic Perylene Dye Ligands"

Since 2001 at  Bayer AG, H.C. Starck GmbH, Goslar, Germany;
since September 2010 H.C. Starck Clevios GmbH,  Leverkusen, Germany

Dr. Zengqi Xie
(AvH-Fellowship and BMBF-Project 03/2009-11/2011)

since December 2011 Associate Professor at South East China University of Technology at Guangzhou, China

Dr. Thomas H. Rehm
(08/2009 - 04/2011)

since May 2011 Institut für Mikrotechnik (IMM) GmbH, Mainz, Germany

Dr. Linlin Liu
(Volkswagen-Stiftung 03/2009-11/2011)

since December 2011 Associate Professor at South East China University of Technology at Guangzhou, China

Dr. Shinobu Uemura
(DFG GRK/1221-Fellowship 04/2007–08/2009)

since September 2009 Assistant Professor at Kumamoto University, Japan, Department of Applied Chemistry and Biochemistry

Prof. Dr. Suhrit Ghosh
(AvH-Fellowship 08/2007–04/2009)

since Mai 2009 Professor at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science Polymer Science Unit, Kolkata, India

Dr. Jun Liu
(AvH-Fellowship 07/2007–02/2009)

since March 2009 at Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Dr. Elena Tulyakova
(BASF-Research Scholarship 01/2008-01/2009)

since January 2009 UPRESA CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique et d'Application RMN, Lille Cedex, France

Dr. Natarajan Ramalingam
(AvH-Fellowship 10/2006–09/2007)

since September 2007 at School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK

Dr. Hao Wang
(AvH-Fellowship 01/2006–06/2007)

2007-2011 at Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Since 2011 Professor at the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, China

Dr. Marina Lysetska
(Volkswagen-Research Scholarship 11/2003–10/2005)

since October 2006 Zürich, Switzerland

Dr. Chang-Cheng You
(AvH-Fellowship 10/2002–04/2004)

since 2004 to 2007 at the Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, USA
since 2008 WMR Biomedical, Inc. Cambridge, MA, USA

Dr. Shahadat Ahmed

since 2002 at Discovery Chemistry, Pfizer Global Research & Development, Kent, UK subsequently/now: Argentadiscovery, Harlow, UK

Dr. Sheng Yao

since 2001 senior scientist at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA