Prof. Dr. Jana Zaumseil
Angewandte Physikalische Chemie
Universität Heidelberg
Im Neuenheimer Feld 253
69120 Heidelberg
Tel. +49 6221 54 - 5065
Email: zaumseil@uni-heidelberg.de
www.pci.uni-heidelberg.de/apc
EDUCATION & ACADEMIC CAREER
Since 2014

Professor for Applied Physical Chemistry (W3)
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany(co-opted by Faculty of Physics and Astronomy since 2016)2009-2014

Professor for Nanoelectronics (W2), Department of Materials Science,Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany

2007 - 2009

Postdoctoral Fellow (Ugo Fano Named Postdoc Fellowship)
Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory (USA)2003 – 2007

PhD in Physics (Gates Cambridge Trust Scholarship)
University of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge (UK)
Research internship (‘Dr. Jürgen Ulderup’ Scholarship)
Bell Laboratories (Lucent Technologies), Murray Hill (USA)
Diplom (corresponding to M.Sc.) in Physical Chemistry (with highest distinction)
University of Leipzig (Germany)

2002 – 2003
1997 - 2002

AWARDS
2019

European Research Council Consolidator Grant (TRIFECTs, No. 817494, 2 M€)

2015

Best Teaching Award in Chemistry at Heidelberg University (Physical Chemistry II, Lecturecourse, Bachelor)

2012

European Research Council Starting Grant (EN-LUMINATE, No. 306298, 1.5 M€)

2010

Alfried-Krupp-Award for Young University Professors (1 M€)

2009

EAM Excellence in Engineering Materials Award (750 k€)

2006

Gold Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award at MRS Spring Meeting 2006

SCHOLARSHIPS
2019

JSPS BRIDGE Fellowship (Visiting Fellow at RIKEN, Prof. Kato)

2012

JSPS Fellowship (Visiting Fellow at University of Osaka, Prof. Takeya)

2007 – 2009

Ugo Fano Named Postdoc Fellowship, Argonne National Laboratory (USA)

2004 – 2006

Gates Cambridge Trust Scholarship, University of Cambridge

1998 – 2002

Scholarship ‘Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes e.V.’ (German AcademicScholarship Foundation)

INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES•Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences, Heidelberg University (from Oct 2019)•Fellow of the Max Planck School “Matter to Life” (https://www.maxplanckschools.de/en/matterto-life)•

Vice-chair of Collaborative Research Center “N-Heteropolycycles” SFB 1249 (since 2017)•

Executive Director of Centre for Advanced Materials, Heidelberg (https://www.cam.uniheidelberg.de/) (2017 – 2019)•

Mentor for 18 scholars (undergraduate and graduate students) of the German AcademicScholarship Foundation (https://www.studienstiftung.de/en/) in Heidelberg (since 2016)•

Member of the Commission for Research and Strategy of Heidelberg University (since 2016)•Academic Mentor Team NBB: Nanomaterial-Based Biosensors, BioMed X Innovation Center,Heidelberg, https://bio.mx/research-teams/diagnostics/team-nbb-nanomaterial-based-biosensors/(2016-2019)•Editor for Materials of IOP Journal “Flexible and Printed Electronics” (since 2018)

10 MOST IMPORTANT PUBLICATIONS
In total over 90 publications (> 11,000 citations, h-index = 37, 4 book chapters)
Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=80pi4SQAAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao
1. Berger, F. J.; Lüttgens, J.; Nowack, T.; Kutsch, T.; Lindenthal, S.; Kistner, L.; Müller, C. C.;
Bongartz, L. M.; Lumsargis, V. A.; Zakharko, Y.; Zaumseil, J.
Brightening of Long, Polymer-Wrapped Carbon Nanotubes by sp3 Functionalization in OrganicSolvents. ACS Nano 2019, 13, 9259.
2. Brohmann, M.; Berger, F. J.; Matthiesen, M.; Schießl, S. P.; Schneider, S.; Zaumseil, J.
Charge Transport in Mixed Semiconducting Carbon Nanotube Networks with Tailored Mixing
Ratios. ACS Nano 2019, 13, 7323.
3. Möhl, C.; Graf, A.; Berger, F. J.; Lüttgens, J.; Zakharko, Y.;
Lumsargis, V.; Gather, M. C.; Zaumseil, J.,
Trion-Polariton Formation in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube
Microcavities. ACS Photonics 2018, 5 (6), 2074.
4. Schneider, S.; Brohmann, M.; Lorenz, R.; Hofstetter, Y. J.;
Rother, M.; Sauter, E.; Zharnikov, M.; Vaynzof, Y.; Himmel,H.-J.; Zaumseil, J.
Efficient N-Doping and Hole Blocking in Single-Walled Carbon
Nanotube Transistors with 1,2,4,5-Tetrakis(Tetramethylguanidino)Benzene. ACS Nano 2018, 12, 5895.
5. Graf, A.; Held, M.; Zakharko, Y.; Tropf, L.; Gather, M. C.;
Zaumseil, J., Electrical pumping and tuning of excitonpolaritons in carbon nanotube microcavities.
Nature Mater. 2017, 16, 911. Cover image (Sep 2017)
6. Graf, A.; Tropf, L.; Zakharko, Y.; Zaumseil, J.; Gather, M. C.,
Near-infrared exciton-polaritons in strongly coupled single-walled carbon nanotube
microcavities. Nature Comm. 2016, 7, 13078.
7. Zakharko, Y.; Graf, A.; Zaumseil, J.,
Plasmonic Crystals for Strong Light–Matter Coupling in Carbon Nanotubes.
Nano Lett. 2016, 16, 6504.
8. Schießl, S. P., Fröhlich, N., Held, M., Gannott, F., Schweiger, M., Forster, M., Scherf, U.,
Zaumseil, J. Polymer-Sorted Semiconducting Carbon Nanotube Networks for High-Performance
Ambipolar Field-Effect Transistors.
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2015, 7, 682.
9. Schornbaum, J., Winter, B., Schießl, S. P., Gannott, F., Katsukis, G., Guldi, D. M., Spiecker, E.;
Zaumseil, J.
Epitaxial Growth of PbSe Quantum Dots on MoS2 Nanosheets and their Near-Infrared
Photoresponse.
Adv. Funct. Mater. 2014, 24, 5798.
10. Thiemann, S.; Sachnov, S.; Pettersson, F.; Bollström, R.; Österbacka, R.; Wasserscheid, P.;
Zaumseil, J.,
Cellulose-Based Ionogels for Paper Electronics.
Adv. Funct. Mater. 2014, 24, 625-634.