• Polymer networks and gels
• Polymer physics

• Diploma in Physics at the University of Regensburg at the polymer physics group of Dietmar Göritz (2001).
• Ph. D. in Physics at the University of Regensburg at the polymer physics group of Dietmar Göritz (2004).
• Research fellow with Prof. Göritz until 9/2005.
• Post-doc (9/2005-8/2007) in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with Michael Rubinstein.
• Since 09/2007 research fellow at the Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung in the group of Jens-Uwe Sommer.
• Since 01.01.2015 substitutional Head of Institute Theory of Polymers

• Complete CV with list of publications

• Summer term 2011: „Polymer Physics“ as proxy for Prof. Magerle (TU Chemnitz).
• Summer term: „Computer simulation of soft condensed matter“, every year since 2013 (TU Dresden).
• Winter term: „The physics of polymers“, every year with even number since 2008 (TU Dresden).

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), National Science Foundation (NSF), Physical Review Letters, Physical Review E, Macromolecules, Soft Matter, Journal of Polymer Science, Journal of Chemical Physics, ...

• Kapnistos, M.; Lang, M.; Vlassopoulos, D.; Pyckhout-Hintzen, W.; Richter, D.; Cho, D.; Chang, T.; Roovers, J.; Rubinstein, M.
  Unexpected power-law stress relaxation in entangled ring polymers
  Nature Materials 7 (2008) 997-1002
• Chassé, W.; Lang, M.; Sommer, J.-U.; Saalwächter, K.
  Cross-link density estimation of PDMS networks with precise consideration of networks defects
  Macromolecules 45 (2012) 899-912
• Lang, M.
  Monomer fluctuations and the distribution of residual bond orientations in polymer networks more Macromolecules 46 (2013) 9782-9797
• Lang, M.; Rubinstein, M.; Sommer, J.-U.
  Conformations of a long polymer in a melt of shorter chains: Generalizations of the Flory theorem
  ACS Macro Letters 4 (2015) 177-181
• Lang, M. ; Schuster, C. ; Dockhorn, R. ; Wengenmayr, M. ; Sommer, J.-U.
  Testing the physics of knots with a Feringa nanoengine more
  Physical Review E 98 (2018) 052501.
• Lang, M.
  Elasticity of phantom model networks with cyclic defects more
  ACS Macro Letters 7 (2018) 536-539.

• Michael Rubinstein (UNC, Chapel Hill)
• Dimitris Vlassopoulos (FORTH, Heraklion)
• Kay Saalwächter (Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
• Frank Böhme (IPF Dresden)
• Sebastian Seiffert (Universität Mainz)
• Regine von Klitzing (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
• Felix Schacher (Universität Jena)
• Christian Holm (Universität Stuttgart)

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