Prof. Dr. Manfred Schmidt

Tel.:   +49 (0) 6131-3923769

Room: 01-154

email:  mschmidt@uni-mainz.de

1. Address and personal information

 

 

Institut für Physikalische Chemie
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
55128 Mainz, Jakob-Welder-Weg 11

Phone: +49 (0) 6131-3923769
Fax:     +49 (0) 6131-3922970

e-mail:  mschmidt@uni-mainz.de

 

http://www.uni-mainz.de/FB/Chemie/mschmidt/members/schmidt/schmidt.html

Date and place of birth:  Feb. 04, 1950/Dinslaken, Germany

 

 

 

2. Research Areas

 

 

Synthesis and Supramolecular chemistry of polymers, polymer characterization,

scattering techniques, polyelectrolytes, shape persistent macromolecules,

organic/inorganic composites, synthetic/biological hybrid structures.

 

 

 

3. Professional Career

 

 

1970 - 1977          Study of Chemistry at the University Bochum,

                           Germany und Freiburg, Germany;
 

1977 - 1980          Ph.D. degree in Polymer Science at the University

                           of Freiburg, Germany (with of Prof. W. Burchard);

 

1980 - 1981          Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt

                           Foundation with Prof. W. H. Stockmayer,                   
                           Dartmouth College, Hannover, NH, USA;

 

1981 - 1983          DFG-Fellow at the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry,

                           University of Freiburg, Germany;

 

1984 - 1991          Research Assistant at the Max Planck Institute of Polymer

                           Research, Mainz, Germany;

1989                    Habilitation in Physical Chemistry at the University of Mainz,

                           Germany;       

 

1991 - 1995          Associate (C3) Professor of Macromolecular Chemistry at

                           the University of Bayreuth, Germany;

 

Since 1995            Full (C4) Professor for Physical Chemistry at the University

                           of Mainz, Germany;

 

1996-2002            Executive Head of the Institute of Physical Chemistry,

                           University of Mainz.

 

 

 

4. Professional Duties/Stipends/Awards

 

 

1982                   Goedecke Research Prize, University of Freiburg, Germany;

 

1981                   Feodor-Lynen Scholarship of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation;

 

1983                   Personal Scholarship of the German Science Foundation (DFG);

 

1991                   Fiebiger Professor at the University of Bayreuth (Personal Professorship);

 

1995 - 2003         Member of the Scientific Council of the "Gerhard Schmidt Minerva Center 

                           for Supramolecular Structures", Weizmann Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel;

 

since 2000           Chairman of the committee for the "Hermann Staudinger Award", granted

                          by the German Chemical Society (GDCh);

 

since 2001           Director of the BMBF-Center "Multifunctional Materials and Miniaturized

                          Devices";

 

since 2002           Director of the DFG Research center ("Sonderforschungsbereich"), "From

                          Single Molecules to Nanostructured Materials"

 

since 2002           Associate Editor for Macromolecules;

 

since 2003           Member of the Scientific Advisory Board (Wiss. Beirat) of the Max-Planck

                          Institute for Polymer Science, Mainz, Germany

 

Publications

 

Patents