Current activities

Since 2009: Intellectual property manager and start-up consultant at the University of Bayreuth

Speaker on the topics
  • Intellectual property rights
  • Funding for start-ups

Club activities

Since 2006: Managing Director and owner of www.kerzenidee.de

Completed activities

2003 – 2021: Part-time lecturer

for environmental hygiene at the Bayreuth School of Nursing

2008 – 2009 BioCer Entwicklungs-GmbH

Group development manager with the following areas of activity:

  • Establishment of the Hemostatics (Blood-Stopping Drugs) division
  • Further development of coatings
  • Soft tissue implants
  • Bone fillers
  • Dental materials
  • Tissue adhesives

2001 Friedrich Baur Research Institute for Biomaterials (FBI) in Bayreuth
Director: Prof. Dr.-Ing. G. Ziegler

Fields of activity:

  • Development of special molding processes for ceramic X-ray detectors, application: CT (SIEMENS)
  • Biocompatible coatings for implants
  • Development of novel tissue adhesives
  • Development of dental adhesives and dental fillers
  • Development of drug-release systems
  • Development of fillers for bone defects (bone wax substitute, kyphoplasty filler)
  • Development of a hybrid system for photochemical wastewater treatment
  • Patent officer in the working group since 2003

1999 – 2000 Research assistant

at the University of Bayreuth in the Department of Ceramics and Composite Materials, Institute for Materials Science (IMA) under Prof. Dr.-Ing. G. Ziegler

1998 – 1999 Lecturer at the Hof Chamber of Crafts

(‘Selected Physical and Technical Fundamentals of Energy Technology’/ Course: Energy Consultant in the Skilled Trades)

1995 – 1998 Research assistant

in the Department of Textile Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University under Prof. H. Baumann, supervision of internships and research work including colloquia, management and supervision of student seminars.

Production of coated PU catheters for toxicity and blood tests as part of a project funded by the BMBF with Fresenius AG in St. Wendel (development of haemocompatible surfaces by modifying materials with endothelial cell surface heparan sulphate, funding code 03 M 1506 3).

Production of haemocompatible adsorbent material (beads) for Fresenius AG in St. Wendel (project: study on the targeted functionalisation and covalent anchoring of heparan sulphate derivatives on the outer surface of adsorbent material).