Petra Uhlmann is head of the department Nanostructured Materials.

• Nanostructured surfaces and thin films
• polymer brushes
• intelligent, adaptive and switching surfaces
• physical chemistry of surfaces and interfaces, and polymeric materials
• Surface functionalization
• Coatings and surface technology
• Adsorption phenomena onto polymer surfaces
• characterization techniques of (nanostructured) surfaces, interfaces and thin films
• Nano and micro fluidics
• Intelligent biointerfaces
• Sensors
• Nanocatalysts

Other Positions

Chair of the board "Combined Surface Technology" of four German Coatings and Thin Films Associations (DFO, DGO, Inplas and EFDS),
Member of the scientific board of Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft für Oberflächenbehandlung e.V. (DFO), Neuss, Germany
Member of the cooperation network "Functional Surfaces" (fotec)

Reviewer

AiF (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Industrieller Forschung, Germany), National Science Foundation (NSF)
Reviewer for more than 15 journals devoted to material science and physico-chemistry from  ACS, Wiley VCH, Elsevier, Springer and others

Teaching

Physiko-Chemistry of Interfaces, Protein Adsorption