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Invited Speaker: Prof. Dr. Markus Niederberger

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Prof. Dr. Markus Niederberger

Markus Niederberger, born in 1970, studied chemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, where he also received his Ph.D. degree in 2000. After a postdoctoral stay in the group of Prof. Galen D. Stucky at the University of California at Santa Barbara, he became group leader in the Colloid Chemistry Department of Prof. Markus Antonietti at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces at Potsdam in 2002. Since 2007 he is Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials at ETH Zürich. His primary research interests are the development of general synthesis concepts for inorganic nanoparticles, investigation of formation and crystallization mechanisms and nanoparticle assembly. Markus Niederberger is married and father of three boys.