PD Dr. Alexander Kühne appointed to the University of Ulm

In October 2018, Alexander Kühne, independet research group leader at the DWI - Leibniz Institute from 2012 to 2018, will take up a W3 professorship at the University of Ulm, where he now heads the Institute of Organic Chemistry III. At the same time, he will remain associated with the DWI as an Associate Scientist. Kühne studied chemistry in Cologne and Glasgow and earned his doctorate under Richard Pethrick at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. After postdoctoral stays with Klaus Meerholz in Cologne and David Weitz in Harvard, he has been a research assistant at DWI since December 2011. 

Alexander Kühne is researching new fluorescent and intelligent materials for applications in telecommunications, photonics and medicine. His focus is on the production of functional polymers and particles that independently arrange themselves into regular structures and react to signals from the environment. For example, materials are created whose fluorescence can be switched on and off by light pulses.