Jens Gaitzsch is acting head of the department of bioactive and responsive polymers (RP) and a research group leader at IPF. He completed his chemistry degree in 2009 at the TU Dresden under the guidance of Prof. Peter Metz and obtained his PhD in 2013 from Prof. Brigitte Voit at IPF pioneering the field of photo cross-linked and pH sensitive polymersomes at the institute. After completing his PhD he went to University College London for a DFG-funded postdoc position in the group of Giuseppe Battaglia. He then became a senior postdoc, working with the group of Wolfgang Meier at the University of Basel from Mid-2015, starting to focus on biodegradable polymers for self-assembly with a special focus on radical ring-opening polymeristion. Dr. Gaitzsch now works on these topics at IPF.

IPF Academic Starter for "Functional Polyesters from Radical Ring Opening Polymerisation (RROP)"

45+ Publications, h-index: 20, i-10 index: 30+

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• Radical Ring-Opening Polymerisation
• Microfluidics and hydrogels
• Self-Assembly - especially Polymersomes