• Head of Research Group "Smart & Functional Elastomers"
• Adjunct professor at the Tampere University of Technology, Finland
• Promotion of young scientists "Advanced promotion"

Artificial muscle based on dielectric elastomers; mechano-adaptive elastomers; conducting elastomers, sensors and actuators based on functional elastomers, development of green rubber compounds, non-covalent crosslinking network of rubbers

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Several published works have been highlighted in different scientific news portal, world-wide newspapers and broadcasting agencies

• Rubber chemistry
• Advanced characterisation technique
• Basic rubber physics

• 2016      Spark Thomas Award by American Chemical Society, Rubber Division
• 2016      Adjunct Professorship, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
• 2015      Call to a Full Professorship, Tampere University of Technology, Finland - declined
• 2013      Finland Distinguished Professor Program- Fellow (FidiPro-Fellow)
• 2010      Innovation prize Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, Dresden, Germany

• Elastomere Werkstoffe und ihre Verwendung DE102012212422A1, EP2872558A1, US20150175768, WO2014012819A1
• Temperaturbeständige elastomere Werkstoffe und ihre Verwendung DE102012214511A1
• Vulkanisationsmittel für Elastomere und Verfahren zur Herstellung dieser Elastomere DE102010043448A1
• Blends aus thermoplastischen Polyurethanen und Kautschuken und Verfahren zu ihrer Herstellung  DE102013217661A1
• Kautschukmischungen und daraus erhaltene Elastomere mit modifzierten Schichtsilikat-Füllstoffen und Verfahren zu ihrer Herstellung  DE102007042496A1
• Rubber mixture, useful for manufacturing technical rubber article, preferably straps, comprises a polar or non-polar rubber and a carbon black and an ionic liquid and/or a carbon black modified with an ionic liquid, and further additives DE 102011001658 A1
• Kautschuk- oder Elastomerzusammensetzungen und Verfahren zu deren Herstellung DE 10 2016 209 098.4
• Elastomere Zusammensetzung und Verfahren zu ihrer Herstellung DE 10 2016 109 620.2