Researchers involved in the NeoGel project
Kevin Behan
Project title: Nanoparticle doped hydrogels, top-down and bottom-up approaches
Affiliations: Dublin City University (Dublin, IRE)
Supervisors: Dermot Brougham and Andreas Heise
Nationality: Irish
Scientific background: BSc in Chemical Sciences and MSc in Imaging Science. My imaging background crossed over with Dr. Brougham’s interest in MRI. My interests are in theranostics/medical applications using nanomaterials.
Bing Wu
Project title: Physicochemical characterisation of hydrogels, from chemistry to function
Affiliations: Dublin City University (Dublin, IRE)
Supervisors: Dermot Brougham
Nationality: Chinese
Scientific background: Bing Wu majors in Physical chemistry, and has extensive experiences with various spectroscopic techniques, for instance, NMR, XPS, XRD. During his master study in Universität Leipzig, he did his master thesis in the field of photochemistry under the supervision of Prof. B. Abel.
Saltuk B. Hanay
Project title: Polypeptide based hydrogels
Affiliations: Dublin City University (Dublin, IRE)
Supervisors: Andreas Heise
Nationality: Turkish
Scientific background: B.Sc: Chemistry Dept. Bilkent University (Ankara-2009), M.Sc: Chemistry Dept. Bogazici University (Istanbul-2011), Assistant expert: TUBITAK (Ankara 2011-2012)
Timo Stukenkemper
Project title: Porous hydrogels based on natural macrolactones
Affiliations: Dublin City University (Dublin, IRE)
Supervisors: Andreas Heise
Nationality: German
Scientific background: Polymer Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Molecular Life Science