Prof. Dr. Stephan Förster

1992 - 1993

Post-doctoral Fellow at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, U.S.A.

1993 - 1999

Staff Scientist at MPI for Colloid and Interface Science, Potsdam.

2000 - 2010

Professor (C4/W3), Physical Chemistry, University of Hamburg.

2010 - 2017

Professor (W3), Physical Chemistry, University of Bayreuth.

2017 -

Director JCNS-1, Forschungszentrum Jülich

2017 -

Professor (W3), Physical Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University

2018 – 2020

Director, Maier-Leibnitz-Zentrum (MLZ), Garching

2018 -

Director JCNS-4 at Forschungszentrum Jülich (Garching outstation)

2010

Honorary Guest Professor, University of Melbourne

2012

ERC Advanced Grant

2014 – 2023

Associate Editor, Macromolecules

2015

ERC Proof-of-Concept Grant

2015/16

Honorary Guest Professor, University of New South Wales, Sydney

2016 - 2020

Senate, German Science Foundation (DFG)

2017 -

Vice-Chair, Board of Trustees of DWI Leibniz Institute, Aachen

2024

Chair of Associates, Institute-Laue-Langevin, Grenoble

2024 -

Chemistry Review Board, German Science Foundation (DFG)

S. Förster, A. Timmann, C. Schellbach, A. Frömsdorf, A. Kornowski, H. Weller, S. V. Roth, P. Lindner, Order causes secondary Bragg-peaks in soft materials, Nat. Mater. 6 (2007) 888.

C. Schliehe, B. H. Juarez, M. Pelletier, S. Jander, D. Greshnykh, M. Nagel, A. Meyer, S. Förster, A. Kornowski, C. Klinke, H. Weller, Ultra-thin PbS-sheets by two-dimensional oriented attachment, Science 329 (2010) 550.

S. Fischer, A. Exner, K. Zielske, J. Perlich, P. Lindner, W. Steurer, S. Förster, Colloidal quasicrystals with 12-fold and 18-fold symmetry, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 108 (2011) 1810.

M. Trebbin, D. Steinhauser, J. Perlich, A. Buffet, S. V. Roth, W. Zimmermann, J. Thiele, S. Förster, Anisotropic particles align perpendicular to the flow-direction in narrow microchannels Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 110 (2013) 550-553.

S. Mehdizadeh Taheri, T. Friedrich, M. Michaelis, B. Förster, M. Drechsler, F. M. Römer, P. Bösecke, T. Narayanan, S. Rosenfeldt, B. Weber, I. Rehberg, S. Förster, Self-assembly of smallest magnetic nanoparticles, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 112 (2015) 14484.

V. B. Leffler, L. Mayr, P. Paciok, H. Du, R. E. Dunin-Borkowski, M. Dulle, S. Förster, Controlled assembly of block copolymer coated nanoparticles in 2D arrays, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 131 (2019) 8629.

M. Laumann, W. Schmidt, A. Farutin, D. Kienle, S. Förster, C. Misbah, W. Zimmermann, Emerging attractor in wavy Poiseuille flows triggers sorting of biological cells, Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, (2019) 128002.

X. Liao, M. Dulle, J. M. de Souza e Silva, R. B. Wehrspohn, S. Agarwal, S. Förster, H. Hou, P. Smith, A. Greiner, High strength in combination with high toughness in robust and sustainable polymeric materials, Science 366 (2019) 1376.

E. Kostyurina, J. Allgaier, M. Kruteva, H. Frielinghaus, A. Csiszar, S. Förster, R. Biehl, Passive macromolecular translocation mechanism through lipid membranes, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 144 (2022) 15348.

J. Michalska-Walkowiak, B. Förster, S. Hauschild, S. Förster, Bistability, remanence, read/write memory, and logic gate function via a stimuli-responsive polymer, Adv. Mater. 34 (2022) 2108833.