Michael Kather

- Development of novel membranes for industrial applications - Coordination of project progress with the project team - Identifying discoveries with the potential to create intellectual properties - Improving existing and developing new analytical standards for quality assurance - Optimizing existing production processes

Development and management of projects for product and process development in collaboration with industrial partners. Project acquisition and lead with financial responsibility: - IGF: Microgel-based membranes with antifouling properties (2018)

- Supervision of students in practical course „Macromolecular Chemistry“ - Supervision of students during their bachelor and master thesis - Care taking of dynamic and static light scattering device and reaction calorimeter - Leading and coordinating a group of five employees for the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) service of the institute - Financial planning and management in a work group of 25 members

Characterization and purification of organic molecules using high performance liquid chromatography, size exclusion chromatography and supercritical fluid chromatography in the work groupf of Prof. Dr. Magnus Rueping.

Synthesis and characterization of functional microgels using zeta potential, dynamic & static light scattering, small angle x-ray scattering, surface tension and fluid particle analyzing in the work group of Prof. Dr. Walter Richtering.

Investigation of the building mechanism of thermo-responsive microgels to be able to predict microgel properties and allow microgel synthesis on industrial scale. This is done by variation of reaction parameters and the microgels are characterized using on- and off-line methods.

Synthesis of diblock copolymers with a deuterated or protonated ethylene oxide block using anionic polymerization and investigation of their micellar behaviour in the group of Prof. Dr. Dieter Richter.

Investigation of the structure of two-dimensional molecular networks of butadiyne-bridged hexagonal-shaped pyridinophanes and guest inclusion into this networks in the group of Prof. Yoshito Tobe.