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Featured Speaker: Ulrich Wiesner

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Ulrich Wiesner

Uli Wiesner studied Chemistry at the Universities of Mainz and California, Irvine. He received his Chemistry Diploma in 1988 from the University of Mainz, Germany, and gained his Ph.D. in 1991 with work in the group of Prof. H. W. Spiess at the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz. After his Ph.D. he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielle de la ville de Paris (E.S.P.C.I.), France, with Prof. L. Monnerie. In 1993 he returned to the group of Prof. H. W. Spiess were he finished his Habilitation in 1998. He joined the Cornell MS&E faculty in 1999 as a tenured Associate Professor and became a Full Professor in 2005. In 2004 he received an offer for an endowed chair position for Macromolecular Silicon Chemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany, which he declined. In 2006/2007 he spend a full sabbatical year in the Cavendish Laboratories of Cambridge University, UK. Since his arrival at Cornell he works at the interface between polymer science and inorganic chemistry. The goal of his research is to combine knowledge about the self-assembly of soft materials with the functionality of inorganic materials to generate novel hierarchical and multifunctional hybrids. Uli Wiesner is the author of about 100 articles in peer-review journals and books and is currently an editorial or advisory board member of several scientific journals. Based on work at Cornell in 2003 he co-founded Hybrid Silica Technologies, Inc. (HST), Ithaca, NY, with the goal to provide “green” multifunctional hybrid nanomaterials for life sciences applications and beyond. Uli Wiesner is the recipient of multiple awards, including the Carl Duisberg Memorial Award of the German Chemical Society and the Mr. & Mrs. Richard F. Tucker’50 Excellence in Teaching Award of Cornell University.

Website: www.ccmr.cornell.edu/~uli (link will open in a new window)