CV
Short CV of Prof Dr Meike Nicole Leiske
Since 12/2022 Junior professor for sustainable and functional polymers, macromolecular chemistry, University of Bayreuth
09/2021-11/2022 Postdoctoral assistant, Department of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry, Ghent University, Belgium, Prof. Richard Hoogenboom
07/2020 – 07/2021 Visiting postdoctoral researcher, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Prof. Stephen J. Kent
10/2019 – 07/2021 Postdoctoral fellow (Feodor-Lynen programme), Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, Dr. Kristian Kempe
08/2018-09/2019 Postdoctoral researcher, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, Prof. Thomas P. Davis
01/2015-07/2018 PhD thesis (Macromolecular Chemistry), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Prof. Ulrich S. Schubert
10/2012-10/2014 M. Sc. Chemical Biology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
09/2013-12/2013 Resarch semester abroad (Fulbright Germany), University of Oregon, Eugene, USA
10/2009-09/2012 B. Sc. Chemistry and Biology, Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg
Academic distinctions
2024: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the GDCh division of Detergent Chemistry
2024: Member of the Advisory Board of RSC Applied Polymers
2024: Member of the Early Career Researcher Advisory Board of ACS Biomacromolecules
2019: Feodor-Lynen Fellowship (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)
Selected granted funding
2024: Chemical Industry Fund: Biomimetic polymers – Smart materials with biological functions
2024: DFG Individual Grant: Design of macromolecularly engineered amino-acid-derived zwitterionic polymers for cellular targeting
2024: TRR225 seed funding: Polyelectrolytes as protein delivery vectors in a tissue regeneration setup
2023: Chemical Industry Fund: Biomimetic polymers – Smart materials with biological functions
Selected invited talks
2024: Invited lecture at the European Detergents Conference (Berlin, Germany): Amino-acid-derived polyelectrolytes - Challanges and opportunities
2024: Invited lecture at the Biennial Meeting of the GDCh Division of Macromolecular Chemistry (Dresden, Germany): Amino-acid-derived polymers
2024: Invited faculty seminar at Monash University Materials Science and Engineering (Melbourne, Australia): Amino-acid-derived polyelectrolytes
2024: Invited keynote lecture at the 38th Australasian Polymer Symposium (Auckland, New Zealand): Amino acids - Building blocks for the synthesis of polymers with tailored properties beyond proteins
2023: Invited lecture at the Bayreuth Polymer Symposium (Bayreuth, Germany): Amino acids - Building blocks for the synthesis of polymers with tailored properties beyond proteins
2022: Invited plenary lecture at the 14th International Symposium of Ionic Polymerization (Ghent, Belgium): Biomimetic Polymers – A Cell-oriented Approach for the Design of Tailored Therapeutic