Susanne Drechsler, born 1985 in Dresden (Germany) holds a Diploma in chemical engineering with an emphasis in life science and product technologies from the Technical University in Dresden (2013). During her studies she accomplished an internship at Roche Diagnostics in Penzberg (Germany), where she worked on HPLC-MS/MS method development for the determination of vitamin D levels in blood sera. In 2012/13 she moved to Berlin (Germany) to start her thesis work at the Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility at the Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine. Her graduation project, carried out in cooperation with the Experimental and Clinical Research Center of the Charité Berlin (Germany), dealt with the field of fluorine containing nanoparticles for fluorine magnetic resonance imaging/ spectroscopy and fluorescence detection methods (2012/13). Since February 2014 she joined the research group of Andreas Kilbinger at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) as an early stage researcher (ESR) of the SASSYPOL network. There she is working on the project of “non-covalent rod coil networks via olefin metathesis”.
Research
The aim of this project is the achievement of amphiphilic polyaramides, which self assemble to different nanoscopic objects.The single building blocks of these kinds of polymers are para-aminobenzoic acid derivates, which once polymerized or oligomerized will form para-benzamides. Different side chains attached to the aromatic ring will later on determine the properties of the corresponding polymers.The big advantages of using para-benzamides are the exceptional shape-persistence due to the aromatic backbone, the trans-conformation of the amide bond and their double bond character as well as the well-investigated synthesis. This makes them suitable candidates to synthesize various geometrical well defined macromolecules. Introducing the amphiphilic character additionally will open a whole new spectrum of applications such as biomedical ones. Part of this PhD project will be to find a modular synthesis for different para-benzamide monomers, their oligomerization and polymerization and finally the determination of their macroscopic behavior and their self-assembly.
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