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Dr. Kai Mundsinger

Research Coordinator & Head of Laboratory Operations

QUT Contact Details
  • E Block, Level 2, E207, Gardens Point Campus (QUT)

Brief Curriculum Vitae
since 01/2026 Research Coordinator of D./Prof. Christopher Barner-Kowollik, Head of Laboratory Operations of the Soft Matter Materials Laboratory, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia
02/2024 – 12/2025 Research Coordinator to the Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research), Head of Laboratory Operations of the Soft Matter Materials Laboratory, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia
09/2022 – 02/2024 Postdoctoral Researcher under the supervision of Dr. Bryan Tuten at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia
03/2021 – 08/2022 Postdoctoral Researcher under the supervision of Prof. Christopher Barner-Kowollik at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia
05/2017 – 03/2021 PhD under the supervision of Prof. Christopher Barner-Kowollik at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia
12/2016 – 02/2017 Research Assistant Buchmeiser Group, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. Synthesis of ligands for Mo/W-alkylidene complexes
10/2014 – 11/2016 Master of Science (Polymer Chemistry) under the supervision of Prof. Buchmeiser from the University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
07/2015 – 09/2015 Research Assistant ITCF Denkendorf, Denkendorf, Germany. Wet-spinning of cellulose/chitin blend fibres from ionic liquids
10/2010 – 09/2014 Bachelor of Science (Polymer Chemistry) from the University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
04/2014 – 08/2014 Research Assistant ITCF Denkendorf, , Denkendorf, Germany. Processing of chitin, cellulose and chitosan from ionic liquids

Research Interests
  • Controlled Polymerization Techniques
  • Single Chain Nanoparticles
  • Light Reactive Polymers
  • Functional Polymers
  • Precision Photochemistry

[04] Visible Light Reactive Single Chain Nanoparticles, Australasian Polymer Symposium 2024, February 2024, Auckland, New Zealand. [Oral Presentation]
[03] Visible Light Reactive Single Chain Nanoparticles, Queensland Annual Chemistry Symposium 2023, November 2023, Brisbane, Australia. [Oral Presentation]
[02] Two Grapes Short of a Fruit Salad: Raspberry-, Strawberry-, and Seedpod-Like Organic Microspheres via Colloidal Nanotemplating, Queensland Annual Chemistry Symposium 2021, November 2021, Gold Coast, Australia. [Oral Presentation]
[01] Understanding the Limits of Grafting-To, Queensland Annual Chemistry Symposium 2018, November 2018, Brisbane, Australia. [Oral Presentation]

2026
[800] Wavelength-Resolved Heterodimer [2+2] Photocycloadditions for Reversible Surface Grafting

Kanchana, D.; Geurds, L.; Micallef, A.; Tuten, B.; Mundsinger, K.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Chem. Sci., 2026, in press.
2025
[777] Photoinduced Energy/Electron Transfer within Single-Chain Nanoparticles

Nagao, M.; Mundsinger, K.; Barner-Kowollik. C. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64, e202419205
2024
[773] Wavelength-Resolved Oxime Ester Photoinitiator Decay in Radical Polymerization

Kanchana, D.; Carroll, J.; Giacoletto, N.; Gigmes, D.; Kim, J.; Unterreiner, A.; Mundsinger, K.; Tuten, B. T.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Macromolecules, 2024, 57, 9779-9789.
[758] Visible Light Photoflow Synthesis of a Cu(II) Single-Chain Polymer Nanoparticle Catalyst

Gillhuber, S.; Holloway, J. O.; Mundsinger, K.; Kammerer, J. A.; Frisch, H.; Barner-Kowollik, C.; Roesky, P. W. Chem. Sci. 2024, 15, 15280-15290.
2023
[748] Single Chain Nanoparticles in Catalysis

Mundsinger, K.; Izuagbe, A.; Tuten, B. T.; Roesky, P. W.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 63, e202311734.
[728] Visible-Light-Reactive Single-Chain Nanoparticles

Mundsinger, K.; Tuten, B. T.; Wang, L.; Neubauer, K.; Kropf, C.; O’Mara, M. L.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202302995.
2020
[671] Mapping Photochemical Reactivity Profiles on Surfaces

Michalek, L.; Krappitz, T.; Mundsinger, K.; Walden, S. L.; Barner, L.; Barner-Kowollik, C. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 21651-21655.
[669] Two Grapes Short of a Fruit Salad: Raspberry-, Strawberry-, and Seedpod-Like Organic Microspheres via Colloidal Nanotemplating

Mundsinger, K.; Schmitt, C. W.; Michalek, L.; Susewind, M.; Hofe, T.; Barner-Kowollik, C.; Barner, L. ACS Macro Lett. 2020, 9, 1785-1792.
[622] Wavelength-Gated Photoreversible Polymerization and Topology Control

Frisch, H.; Mundsinger, K.; Poad, B. L. J.; Blanksby, S. J.; Barner-Kowollik, C. Chem. Sci. 2020, 11, 2834-2842.
2019
[566] The Long and the Short of Polymer Grafting

Michalek, L.; Mundsinger, K.; Barner-Kowollik, C.; Barner, L. Polym. Chem. 2019, 10, 54-59.
[606] Quantifying Solvent Effects on Polymer Surface Grafting

Michalek, L.; Mundsinger, K.; Barner, L.; Barner-Kowollik, C. ACS Macro Lett. 2019, 8, 800-805.
2018
[558] Photochemistry in Confined Environments for Single-Chain Nanoparticle Design

Frisch, H:, Menzel, J. P.; Bloesser, F. R.; Marschner, D.; Mundsinger, K.; Barner-Kowollik, C. J. Am. Chem Soc. 2018, 140, 9551-9557. (see journal cover)

2017
[02] N-Heterocyclic olefins as initiators for the polymerization of (meth)acrylic monomers: a combined experimental and theoretical approach
Naumann, S.; Mundsinger, K.; Cavallo, L.; Falivene, L. Polymer Chemistry, 2017, 8, 5803-5812.
2015
[01] Multifilament cellulose/chitin blend yarn spun from ionic liquids
Mundsinger, K.; Müller, A.; Beyer, R.; Hermanutz, F.; Buchmeiser, M. R. Carbohydrate Polymers, 2015, 131, 34-40.

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