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Till Meißner
QUT Contact Details
- E Block, Level 2, E209, Gardens Point Campus
mailto:t.meissner@hdr.qut.edu.au
Brief Curriculum Vitae
Brief Curriculum Vitae
| since 2023 | Cotutelle PhD in Polymer/Photochemistry at the Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, supervised by Prof. Brigitte Voit, and at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia, supervised by Prof. Christopher Barner-Kowollik. Thesis Title: Photo-Responsive and Biodegradable Polymer Scaffolds from Radical Ring-Opening Polymerisation |
| 02/2023 – 06/2023 | Research Internship at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia. UV-promotion of radical ring-opening polymerisation (RROP) of cyclic ketene acetals (CKAs) |
| 2019 – 2023 | Master of Science (Chemistry) at the Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany. Thesis Title: Kinetic studies on the radical ring-opening polymerisation (RROP) of 2-methylene-1,3,6-trioxocane (MTC) |
| 2015 – 2019 | Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) at the Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany. Thesis Title: The synthesis and characterisation of DHB-based polymer matrices for MALDI-TOF-MS |
Research Interests and Opportunities
Research Interests
- Chain-growth polymerisation
- Radical ring-opening polymerisation of cyclic ketene acetals
- Post-polymerisation functionalisation (CuAAC)
- Combination of biodegradability and photo-responsiveness
- [2+2] Photocycloadditions
- Advancing PCKAs into the realm of 3D printing
Awards and Prizes
| 2024 | GCCh Conference Stipend, GDCh |
| 2023 | PROMOS Scholarship, DAAD |
Presentations
| [04] | Light-Induces Promotion of Radical Ring-Opening Polymerisation of Cyclic Ketene Acetals, Makro 2024 Polymers for a Sustainable Future, September 2024, Dresden, Germany. [Poster Presentation] |
| [03] | Photochemical Action Plots Evidence UV-promoted Radical Ring-Opening Polymerisation of Cyclic Ketene Acetals, IUPAC MACRO 2024 The 50th World Polymer Congress, July 2024, Warwick, United Kingdom. [Poster Presentation] |
| [02] | Macromolecular Colloquium Freiburg-MAKRO 2024, February 2024, Freiburg, Germany. [Visitor] |
| [01] | Kinetic studies of the radical ring-opening polymerization (RROP) of 2-methylene-1,3,6-trioxocane (MTC), 18th Biennial Bayreuth Polymer Symposium, September 2023, Bayreuth, Germany. [Poster Presentation] |
Publications
| [796] |
Polyester Networks from Radical Ring-Opening Polymerization
Meissner, T.; Schäfer, S.; Barner-Kowollik, C.; Seiffert, S.; Gaitzsch, J. ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. 2025, 7, 13936-13949. |
| [763] |
Photochemical Action Plots Evidence UV-promoted Radical Ring-Opening Polymerization of Cyclic Ketene Acetals
Meissner, T.; Friedel, P.; Carroll, J. A.; Barner-Kowollik, C.; Gaitzsch, J. Polym. Chem. 2024, 16, 704-711 |
Other Publications
2023
| [02] | Kinetic studies on the radical ring-opening polymerization of 2-methylene-1,3,6-trioxocane
Mehner, F., Meissner, T., Seifert, A., Lederer, A., Gaitzsch, J.; J. Polym. Sci. 2023, 1-11. |
2022
| [01] |
Chemically bonded PA-PTFE-oil compounds by reactive processing: Chemical, thermal, morphological, and mechanical analysisNguyen, T. D., Schmidt, T., Meißner, T., Malanin, M., Uhlig, K., Schlenstedt, K., Schwarz, S., Stommel, M., Voit, B., Gedan-Smolka, M.; J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2022, 139, e53012. |
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