Prof. Dr. Jens-Uwe Sommer ist Leiter des Institut Theorie der Polymere am Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e. V. (IPF).
Prof. Dr. Jens-Uwe Sommer hat ebenfalls eine Professur "Theorie der Polymere" an der Fakultät Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften / Fachrichtung Theoretische Physik an der Technischen Universität Dresden inne.

• Theorie der weichen kondensierten Materie und Polymerphysik
• Statistische Physik und Thermodynamik

• J.-U. Sommer and M. Daoud
  Copolymers at Selective Interfaces
  Europhysics Letters 32, 407 (1995)
• J.-U. Sommer and A. Blumen
  On the Statistic of Generalized Gaussian Structures
  Journal of Physics A 28, 6669 (1995)
• G. Reiter and J.-U. Sommer
  Crystallization of Adsorbed Polymer Monolayers
  Physical Review Letters 80, 3771 (1998)
• J.-U. Sommer, A. Hoffmann and A. Blumen
  Block Copolymer Films between Neutral Walls: Monte Carlo study
  Journal of Chemical Physics 111, 3728 (1999)
• J.-U. Sommer and S. Lay
  Topological Structure and Non-Affine Swelling of Bimodal Polymer Networks
  Macromolecules 35, 9832 (2002)
• K. Saalwächter, P. Ziegler, O. Spyckerelle, B. Haidar, A. Vidal and J.-U. Sommer
  H-1 multiple-quantum nuclear magnetic resonance investigations of molecular order distributions in poly(dimethylsiloxane) networks: Evidence for a linear mixing law in bimodal systems
  Journal of Chemical Physics 119, 3468 (2003)
• R. Descas, J.-U. Sommer and A. Blumen
  Static and Dynamic Properties of Tethered Chains at Adsorbing Surfaces: A Monte Carlo Study
  Journal of Chemical Physics 120, 8831 (2004)
• H. Merlitz, G.-L. He, C.-X. Wu and J.-U. Sommer
  Nano-scale brushes: How to build a smart surface coating
  Physical Review Letters 102, 115702 (2009)
• R. Tkachov, V. Senkovskyy, H. Komber, J.-U. Sommer and A. Kiriy
  Random Catalyst Walking Along Polymerized Poly(3-hexylthiophene) chains in Kumada Catalyst-Transfer Polycondensation
  JACS 132, 7803 (2010)
• S. Pogodin, M. Werner, J.-U. Sommer and V. Baulin
  Nanoparticle Induced Permeability of Lipid Membranes
  ACS Nano 6, 10555 (2012)
• C.-F. Luo and J.-U. Sommer
  Frozen topology: Entanglements control nucleation and crystallization in polymers
  Physical Review Letters 112, 195702 (2014)

• J.-U. Sommer and G. Reiter (Eds.): Polymer Crystallization: Observations, Concepts and Interpretations. Lecture Notesin Physics , Vol. 606. ISBN 3-540-44342-8. Springer Verlag (2003)