Niederberger, Markus, Prof. Dr.

Curriculum vitae

Markus Niederberger is Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) and Chair of the Laboratory for Multifunctional Materials since January 2007.

Born June 10, 1970 in Switzerland, Markus Niederberger studied chemistry at the ETH Zürich, where he also received his PhD on nanostructured metal oxides in the group of Prof. R. Nesper in 2000. After a postdoctoral stay in the group of Prof. G. D. Stucky at the University of California at Santa Barbara, in 2002 he became group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam in the Colloid Department of Prof. M. Antonietti.

The Niederberger group works on the synthesis and characterization of inorganic nanomaterials with a strong focus on metal oxide nanoparticles. Using reaction principles from organic chemistry the Niederberger group tries to develop rational synthesis strategies to inorganic functional materials under mild reaction conditions and with control over particle size, shape and assembly behavior.

The long term research goal is the development of general concepts for the fabrication of complex architectures, made up of nanocrystalline components that are hierarchically ordered by specific interactions between the nanoparticle building blocks.