Team

The Boekhoven and Mayer Lab

Current Group Members

Prof. Dr. Job Boekhoven

Junior Group Leader:
Dr. Robert J. Mayer
(MayerLab Website)

Administrative support

Corina Kovacevic

Postdoctoral researchers:

Dr. Nils Bäumer

Dr. Ece Büber

Dr. Hector Soria Carrera

Dr. Marta Tena Solsona

Dr. Matteo Valentini

Ph.D. students:

Francesco Busato

Anna-Lena Holtmannspötter

Nicolas Glück

Christian Ibetsberger

Siddharth “Sid” Sishta Kameswara

Leonie Kauling

Emirhan Koca

Simone Poprawa

Nicolas Stoffregen

Pratrulya Shah

Exchange students:

M.Sc. students:

B.Sc. students:

Lukas Gerstung

Philip Weiß


Alumni:

Ph.D. students.

(17) 2019 – 2025 Monika Wenish
Regulation of Peptide Aging in Supramolecular Systems Through Chemical Fueling 
(pdf)

(16) 2019-2024 Judit Sastre
Active Droplets

(15) 2019-2024 Christine Kriebisch 
Chemically Fueled Dynamic Combinatorial Libraries
(pdf)
Currently at Eisenführ Speiser Patentanwälte

(14) 2019-2024 Brigitte Kriebisch
The Reciprocal Coupling of Non-equilibrium Chemical Reaction Cycles and Supramolecular Systems
(pdf)
Currently at Grünecker Patent- und Rechtsanwälte PartG mbB

(13) 2019-2024 Michele Stasi
Chemically Fueled DNA Nanotechnology
Currently at Imperial College London
(pdf)

(12)  2020-2024 Dr. Xiaoyao Chen
Regulating Synthetic Dissipative Matter through Chemically Fueled Reaction Cycles: Exploring Kinetics-Properties Relationships
Currently at the University of Leiden
(pdf)

(11) 2019 – 2024 Dr. Fabian Späth
Molecular Design of Chemically Fueled Complex Coacervates
(pdf)
Currently at ITM Isotope Technologies Munich SE

(10) 2019-2023 Dr. Alexander Bergmann
Dissipative Structures and Oscillations in Active Emulsions (pdf)
Currently at Bene-Arzneimittel GmbH

(9) 2019-2023 Dr. Laura Tebcharani
Zero-order drug delivery systems
(pdf)
Currently at Thermo Fisher GmbH

(8) 2019-2023 Dr. Michaela Würbser
Chemically fueled self-assembly approach toward life-like materials (pdf)

(7) 2018-2022 Dr. Carsten Donau
The Chemistry and Physics of Chemically Fueled Complex Coacervate Droplets (pdf)
Currently at Chromsystems GmbH

(6) 2017-2022 Dr. Fabian Schnitter
Creating molecular memory through a carbodiimide-driven reaction cycle (pdf)
Currently at the Wyss Institute and Harvard Uni.

(5) 2017 – 2022 Dr. Patrick Schwarz
Designing Feedback Mechanisms in Chemically Fueled Emulsions (pdf)
Currently at Coriolis Pharma Research GmbH)

(4) 2017-2021 Dr. Kun Dai
Design rules for the chemically fueled self-assembly and disassembly of peptides (pdf)
Currently at Uni. Freiburg

(3) 2016-2020 Dr. Caren Wanzke 
Development of Dissipative Supramolecular Materials – From Concept to Application (pdf)
Currently at Thermo Fisher GmbH

(2) 2016 – 2020 Dr. Benedikt Rieß 
Development of Dissipative Out-of-Equilibrium Materials from Direct Chemical Reaction Cycles (pdf)
Currently at Agilent GmbH

(1) 2016 – 2019 Dr. Raphael Grötsch 
Designing and Controlling Dissipative Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles (pdf)
Currently at Oelcheck GmbH

Postdocs

2019-2024 Dr. Oleksii Zozulia
Currently at Alcon 

2022-2024 Dr. Pablo Zambrano
Currently at Exeter University 

2020-2022 – Dr. Jennifer Rodon Fores 
Currently at the University of Strasbourg

2019 Dr. Marilyne Sosson
Currently at Eurofins

2017 Dr. Chandan Maity 
Currently at Vellore Institute of Technology

Exchange Ph.D. students:

2021 Juan Heredero  (visiting student from the University of Zaragoza)

2019 Yuning Liu (visiting student from the University of Alberta)

2019 Michelle Ha (visiting student from the University of Alberta)

2018 Hansol Park (visiting student from the University of Alberta)

2018 Dr. Arzu Angı (visiting student from the Wacker Chair)

2017 Anyeld Ubeda (visiting student from the University of Alberta)

2017 Eiman Osman (visiting student from the University of Alberta)

2017 Jun Sawada (visiting from the Tokyo Institute of Technology)