Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. Franziska Lissel

Ingeborg-Gross Endowed Professor of Applied Polymer Physics
Chair of the Institute of Applied Polymer Physics (IAPP)
Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH)

Head of Department Sustainable Electronic Materials (SEM)
Leibniz-Institute of Polymer Research Dreden e.V. (IPF)
Head of Functional Electronic Materials Group (FEM)

Liebig Fellow of the Association of the Chemical Industry (until 2023)
TU Dresden Young Investigator (until 2023)
Acting Professor at the University of Jena (2020–2021)

Short Biography

Franziska Lissel is the Ingeborg-Gross Endowed Professor and Chair of the Institute of Applied Polymer Physics at Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH). She also heads the Department of Sustainable Polymer Electronics at the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research (IPF) in Dresden. Her research in functional electronic materials focuses on: Soft and sustainable polymer electronics: concepts for intrinsically stretchable, recyclable polymer (semi)conductors. Functional interfaces and hybrid materials: mediating interfaces between metallic nanoparticles and conjugated surface ligands using N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs), including NHC-linked gold nanoparticles. Rational design of molecular machines: electrically responsive molecules with tunable interactions with surfaces and fields to enable controlled nanoscale mechanical function. Previously, she was a postdoctoral scholar in Chemical Engineering at Stanford University with the Bao Research Group. She earned a Dr. sc. nat. (Ph.D.) in 2014 from the University of Zurich, supervised by Professor Heinz Berke, in collaboration with Dr. Heike Riel’s group at IBM Research, and was affiliated with the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry at ETH Zurich. Before that, she studied biology and chemistry at the University of Bremen and earned a Diplom-Chem. (M.Sc. equivalent). Her work is supported by competitive fellowships and grants. Prof. Lissel serves in two DFG Clusters of Excellence—BlueMat and REC2—helping to shape the materials-science foundations of both; she is the Diversity Director for BlueMat. She is a PI on two European Innovation Council (EIC) Pathfinder projects, FITNESS and ESiM, among the EU’s most selective instruments for high-risk research with market potential (typical success rates <4%). Her studies and research have been recognized with fellowships and grants from, among others, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences (SCNAT). Translational impact is central to her program, and she collaborates with industry partners including Procter & Gamble, Samsung, and Schill + Seilacher.