Graduates 2023

Doctoral award winner Dr Paul Strobel (centre) with University President Prof. Walter Rosenthal (right) and Wolfgang Meyer, Chairman of the Society of Friends and Sponsors, at the award ceremony on Schiller Day on 30 June 2023

Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena)

Doctoral Thesis Award of the Friedrich Schiller University

Dr Paul Strobel

• Title of the doctoral thesis:"Late Quaternary climate and environmental reconstruction based on lake and peat sediments from the central southern Cape region of South Africa"
• Supervisor: Prof. Dr Roland Zech​, Institute of Geography

With his dissertation, Dr Paul Strobel has made a very valuable contribution to the reconstruction of the climate and palaeoenvironment in South Africa, and thus also to our understanding of the climate and ecosystem in a key southern hemispheric region. He combined the most innovative methods (biomarkers and component-specific isotopes), worked extremely diligently, focused and independently, and at the same time impressed me with his team spirit. The resulting list of publications speaks for itself, as does the receipt of a state graduate scholarship, his significant involvement in the successful acquisition of a DFG project, and the award of the Habfast Foundation Isotope Prize.

Prof. Dr Roland Zech

The Doctoral Thesis Award of the Friedrich Schiller University is funded by the Society of Friends and Patrons of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena ("Gesellschaft der Freunde und Förderer der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena"). The Doctoral Thesis Awards of the Friedrich Schiller University were awarded on 30 June 2023 at the ceremony of "Schilllertag".External link

A female student in a lab coat with a plant and a stone

Image: Christoph Worsch (University of Jena)

Biogeosciences B.Sc.

• Samuel Atzmann
• Johanna Brusch
• Johanna Däumer 
• Sandra Duran Rios
• Lea Elflein
• Ferenc Füzi
• Negin Khodabakhshi
• Marlene Kroschel
• Linda Schönfeld
• Sebastian Seiberlich
• Hannes Stengel
• Melanie Westphal

Doctoral cap

Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)

Dr Neus Allande Calvet

• "Time-resolved spectroscopy of two-dimensional systems: from the conventional method to a novel cavity-enhanced solution"
• Institute of Physical Chemistry

Dr Aman Anand

• "Stable, Conductive, and Cost-Effective Semi-Transparent Electrodes for Organic Photovoltaics and Beyond"
• Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry

Dr Philipp Balling

• "Structural evolution of the central part of the External Dinarides fold-and-thrust-belt"
• Institute of Geosciences

Dr Marie-Christin Barth

• "Platinum(IV) complexes with biologically active ligands as multi-action prodrugs"
• Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry

Dr Moritz Igor Barth

• "Metal-related Mineral Assemblages as Probes into Protoplanetary Gas-Solid Interactions"
• Institute of Geosciences

Dr Artur Bekisch

• "Carbon-free Bifunctional Gas Diffusion Electrode for Alkaline Energy Converter"
• Institute of Technical Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry

Dr Omar Benzine 

• "Vibrational Dynamics, Heterogeneity and Medium-range Order in Glasses"
• Otto Schott Institute of Materials Research

Dr Philipp Sebastian Borchers

• "Ferrocene-based Materials for Energy Storage Applications"
• Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry

Dr Annika Bothe       

• "Analysis of thermal and electrochemical properties of alternative electrolytes for electrical-double layer capacitors"  
• Institute of Technical Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry

Dr Davide Botteri

• "Development of perylene and silicon rhodamine imaging reagents for fluorescence guided surgery"
• Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry

Dr Henning Otto Brinkhaus

• "Development of deep learning applications for the automated extraction of chemical information from scientific literature"
• Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry

Dr Gizem Cinar

• "Physicochemical aspects of pharmaceutically-relevant polymers and nanoparticles in solution"
• Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry

Dr Ceren Cokca

• "Guanidinium containing Poly(methacrylamide)s for Non-viral Gene Delivery"
• Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry

Dr Daniel Olivet Costabel

• "Organic Photosensitizers for Light-driven Hydrogen Evolution: Synthesis, Characterization and Application"
• Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry

Dr Erwan Yudiar Darussalam 

• "Nanoscale Characterization of Biopolymers using Atomic Force Microscopy and Plasmon-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy"
• Institute of Physical Chemistry

Dr Pori Das

• "Regional Water Balance Analysis of Glacierised River Basins in the North-Eastern Himalaya Applying the J2000 Hydrological Model"
• Institute of Geography

Dr Gökben Demir

• "The Role o+D6:D78f Canopy Induced Heterogeneity in Subsurface Hydrological Processes"
• Institute of Geosciences

Dr Yicong Ding         

• "Mechanoluminescence and Ultrasound-Induced Light Emission of Oxides and Oxysulfides"
• Otto Schott Institute of Materials Research

Dr Cornelius Leopold Dirksen

• "The influence of transition metal addition on lithium stabilized Na-ß"-alumina electrolytes"
• Institute of Technical Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry

Dr Jonas Eichhorn

• "Towards light-driven catalysis in block copolymer micelles"
• Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry

Dr Micheal Eshak        

• "Reactivity of Platinum (II) Complexes with (O,S) Bidentate Ligands towards DNA Model Systems for Cancer Treatment"
• Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry

Dr Lina M. Estupiñán-Suárez

• "Vegetation Dynamics in Northern South America on Different Time Scales"       
• Institute of Geography

Dr Simona Fenizia

• "Signals or resources? Biosynthesis and accumulation of zwitterionic compatible solutes in marine phytoplankton and their role in environmental stress responses"
• Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry

Dr Zekarias Teklu Gebremichael

• "Patterning, Defect Passivation, and Crytallization of Metal Halide Perovskites for Sensor and Photovaltaic Applications"
• Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry

Dr Judith Glienke     

• "Machine Learning in Environmental Chemistry: Application of QSPR Modelling in Wastewater Treatment"
• Institute of Technical Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry

Dr Veit Georg Jonathan Hänsch

• "Photochemical Synthesis of Biaryls and Cyclophanes"
• Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry

Dr Fanziska Hausig-Punke

• "The delivery of biologicals across endosomal membranes by pH-responsive polymers"
• Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry

Dr Keshav Kumar Jha

• "Triplet-Triplet Annihilation Upconversion in Polymeric Systems and Model Membranes"
• Institute of Physical Chemistry

Dr Andreas Friedbert Kießling

• "Unsymmetrische Doppel-Schiff-Basen als Liganden: Selektiver Zugang zu homo- und heterodinuklearen 3d-Übergangsmetallkomplexen "
• Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry

Dr Paul Klemm      

• "Synthesis of functional polymeric carrier material for nanoparticle formulation and efficient gene and drug delivery"        
• Institute of Physical Chemistry

Dr Jan-Hendrik Kruse

• "Catalytically Active Block Copolymer Membranes for Light-Driven Hydrogen Evolution and Water Oxidation"
• Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry

Dr Maria Küllmer        

• "Photoactive Carbon Nanomembranes"
• Institute of Physical Chemistry

Dr Daniel Leichnitz     

• "Total synthesis of new microbial sphingolipid-type signaling molecules"
• Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry

Dr Zhan-Hong Lin

• "Study on plasmonic chiral light-matter interaction and the optical properties of fluorescent microspheres"
• Institute of Physical Chemistry

Dr Henry Lindemann

• "Polysaccharid-basierte Nanopartikel zur Hemmung von Histondeacetylasen"
• Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry

Dr Xiao Liu

• "Platinum(IV) Complexes as Prospective Anticancer Agents: Synthesis, Characterization, and Biological Evaluation"
• Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry

Dr Georg Löwe

• "Interplay between tectonics and magmatism in the internal Dinarides"          
• Institute of Geosciences

Dr Fengjiao Ma 

• "Image Processing for Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy"           
• Institute of Physical Chemistry

Dr Miles Joschua Mandel          

• "Synthese und Reaktivität substituierter Bis(pyrazol-1-yl)methanid-Komplexe der s-Blockmetalle und des Zinks"        
• Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry

Dr Rico Meitzner         

• "Charge Transport Layers in Organic Photovoltaics (OPV) - Challenges and Opportunities for the Large-Scale Deployment of OPV"
• Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry

Dr Josefine Meurer  

• "Shape-memory polymers based on reversible supramolecular interactions"
• Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry

Dr Frieda Nagler  

• "Polymeric materials of variable charge and hydrophilicity - Investigation of fragrance encapsulation"
• Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry

Dr Ansgar Oberheide          

• "Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies of Polyazole Cyclopeptide Natural Products – Aurantizolicin and Urukthapelstatin A"
• Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry

Dr Elsie Quansah

• "Multi-contrast microspectroscopic techniques to monitor immune response"      
• Institute of Physical Chemistry

Dr Luka Raguž        

• "Total Synthesis of Bacterial and Fungal Lipidic Natural Products and their Functional Analysis as Signaling Molecules"
• Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry

Dr Muhabat Adeola Raji

• "Colorimetric rapid biosensors for the detection of pathogens in contaminated hospital environment"
• Institute of Physical Chemistry

Dr Kourosh Rezaei 

• "Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of the Plasmonic Probe"
• Institute of Physical Chemistry

Dr Friederike Richter

• "Strategies to Optimize Cationic Polymers for Gene Delivery via Endosomal Escape"
• Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry

Dr Marko Rodewald

• "Molecular Imaging for the Identification of Characteristic Biomedical Spectroscopic Cell and Tissue Features"
• Institute of Physical Chemistry

Dr Philip Rohland

• "Aqueous Organic Redox-Flow-Batteries: From Electrolyte Development to Detailed Stability Studies"
• Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry

Dr Adrian Saal      

• "1,2,4-Benzotriazinyl radicals - Synthesis and application in organic battery systems"
• Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry

Dr Felix Schalk       

• "Functional and genomic analysis of bacterial and fungal natural products derived from the fungus-growing termite"
• Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry

Dr Jonas Schaub

• "Development and implementation of in silico molecule fragmentation algorithms for the chemoinformatics analysis of natural product space"
• Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry

Dr Patrick Schratz         

• "Benchmarking environmental machine-learning models: Methodological progress and an application to forest health"
• Institute of Geography

Dr Philipp Seeber

• "Developments in Multiscale ONIOM and Fragment Methods for Complex Chemical Systems"  
• Institute of Physical Chemistry

Dr Bianca Nicole Seidler

• "Spectroscopic investigations of Cu(I) 4H-imidazolate complexes - precious metal-free chromophores for energy conversion applications"
• Institute of Physical Chemistry

Dr Haodong Shen      

• "Raman spectroscopy as a strategy to investigate biofilm"
• Institute of Physical Chemistry

Dr Juliane Traber

• "Synthese und Eigenschaften ausgewählter Metabolite des Häm-Abbaus"
• Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry

Dr Markus Witzler 

• "Kompositmaterialien und ionische Agarosederivate zur verzögerten Wirkstofffreisetzung für die Knochenregeneration"
• Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry

Dr Tiangxiang Yang

• "Photoinduced excited-state dynamics of small molecules measured in cellulo"
• Institute of Physical Chemistry

Dr Mehmet Aziz Yirik    

• "Development of Efficient Open-Source Chemical Graph Generators"
• Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry

Dr Nicole Ziegenbalg                      

• "Polymerization of reactive S-vinyl monomers"
• Institute of Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry

Dr Karl Michael Ziems

• "High-frequency light-matter interaction in atoms and molecules"
• Institute of Physical Chemistry

Persons who completed their doctorate in the period October 2022-October 2023 are listed.

All completed doctorates and postdoctoral theses since 2001 with links to the full text can be found on our research page.