Dr. Axel Drefahl

Process development in metal extraction and recycling by using novel lixiviant systems based on molecular recognition of metal species; especially gold and platinum-group elements

Photovoltaic materials research: development of the cheminformatics infrastructure, clean-room operations, experimental design, cooperation with third-party laboratories, chemical purchasing, material safety implementations

Leading a project unit for the theoretical understanding and simulation of surfactant-influenced particle aggregation. Teaching physical and computational chemistry.

Modeling and computer-aided estimation of physico-chemical properties for risk analysis, environmental fate and transport studies: molecular similarity versus molecular differences, automatic molecular difference recognition

Modeling of the environmental behavior of organic compounds based on quantitative structure/property relationships (QSPRs) and pattern recognition methods

Physical chemistry: decay of organic peroxides at elevated temperatures and high pressure by applying infrared spectroscopy and kinetic modeling