Director
Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Volker Abetz

Photo: Hereon/Christian Schmid
Director of the Institute of Membrane Research
Institute of Membrane Research, Geesthacht
Building 46, room 246
Max-Planck-Strasse 1
D-21502 Geesthacht
phone: +49 (0)4152 87-2461
fax: +49 (0)4152 87-2499
Professor at the university of Hamburg
Institute of Physical Chemistry
Room 342b
Grindelallee 117
D-20146 Hamburg
Tel.: +49 40 42838 3460/3459
Fax: +49 40 42838 9542
E-Mail
Consultant
Dr. Karin Kirstein
Phone: +49 (0)4152 87-1536
Secretary
Ilona Zillich
Phone: +49 (0)4152 87-2462
Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Volker Abetz
Prof. Abetz is Director of the Institute of Membrane Research at Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon and head of a working group in Physical Chemistry at University of Hamburg. On the following pages you can find information about his scientific career and his publications.
| scientific career of Prof. Dr. Volker Abetz | |
| since 1/2013 | Director of the Institute of Membrane Research (until the end of 2020 under the name Institute of Polymer Research) at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon and full professor for Physical Chemistry at the University of Hamburg |
| 7/2004 - 12/2012 | Director of the Institute of Polymer Research at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon and full professor for Polymer-based Multi-component Materials at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel |
| 3/2004 - 6/2004 | Associate Professor for Polymer Chemistry, University of Potsdam |
| 11/2003 - 2/2004 | Guest lecturer at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium |
| 4/2003 - 7/2003 | Guest lecturer at the University of Regensburg |
| 6/2000 | Habilitation, University of Bayreuth, Department of Macromolecular Chemistry II. Theme of the thesis: "Complex Structures based on ABC triblock copolymer" |
| since 12/1998 | Founding member of the "Reimund Stadler Minerva Center for Mesoscale Macromolecular Engineering", at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, Israel |
| 4/1997 - 6/2004 | Research Associate (akad. Rat/Oberrat), University of Bayreuth Macromolecular Chemistry II in the group of Prof. Dr. R. Stadler (V 14/06/98) since 1/5/99 in the group of Prof. Dr. AHE Müller |
| 4/1994 - 3/1997 | Research associate at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Institute of Organic Chemistry in the group of Prof. Dr. R. Stadler |
| 10/1993 - 3/1994 | Fellow at the Institute Charles Sadron (Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg, Ecole d'Application des Hauts Polymères), Laboratoire Réseaux Polymères Interpénétrés et Materiaux Analogues, in the research group of Dr. GC Meyer |
| 10/1990 - 9/1993 | Scientific assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Department of Polymer Physics with Prof. Dr. EW Fischer |
| 10/1990 | PhD, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry (Prof. Dr. R. Stadler). Topic of the thesis: "Spektroskopische Polarimetrie an mehrkomponentigen Polymersystemen" |
| 11/1988 - 4/1989 and 8/1991 | Fellow at the Stanford University, Department of Chemical Engineering, in the group of Prof. Dr. GG Fuller |
| 1987 | Diploma, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry (Prof. Dr. H.-J. Cantow and Dr. R. Stadler). Topic of the thesis: "FTIR-Dichroismusspektroskopie an polymeren Mehrkomponentensystemen: Aufbau der Meßapparatur und Untersuchungen an modifizierten thermoplastischen Elastomeren" |
| 1982 - 1987 | Study of Chemistry, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg |
- Grant under the Research Training Group Polymer Sciences at the University of Freiburg (1987-1990)
- Graduated grant from the Chemical Industry Association (VCI) (1990)
- Travel grant under PROCOPE (1992-1993)
- Scholarship under the "Human Capital and Mobility" program of the European Community (1993-1994)
- Travel grant of the Section of Macromolecular Chemistry of the German Chemical Society (GDCh, 2000)
- Research grant by the VCI in conjunction with the BMBF (since 2001)
- "Paul J. Flory Polymer Research Prize" 2017 under the auspices of the Scientific Committee of World Forum on Advanced Materials and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)