Lecturers
Lecturers
Walter Richtering
Title and Affiliation:
Prof. Dr. Physical Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University
Lecture title:
Complex responsive microgels
Short autobiography:
Walter Richtering studied chemistry at the universities of Bochum and Freiburg and obtained his PhD with Prof. Burchard at the Hermann-Staudinger Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry in Freiburg as a Fellow of the Graduiertenkolleg Polymerwissenschaften in 1990. Afterwards he was a post-doc as Feodor-Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation at the University of Massachusetts. He was appointed as Professor for Physical Chemistry at Kiel University in 2000 and to the chair in Physical Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University in 2003. He received the Raphael-Eduard-Liesegang award of the Kolloid-Gesellschaft and is editor of the Colloid & Polymer Science. He is the coordinator of the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 985) “Functional microgels and microgel systems“ funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Research Interests:
-Microgels and Gels
-Complex Colloids and Polymers
-Scattering Techniques
Date of Presentation: 2014/11/13