Prof. Dr. Michael Maskos
1. Address
Executive Director
Fraunhofer Institut for Microengineering and Microsystems IMM
Carl-Zeiss-Straße 18-20, 55129 Mainz
phone +49 6131 990 111
fax +49 6131 990 205
e-mail info@imm.fraunhofer.de
www www.imm.fraunhofer.de
2. Research Areas
Chemical Process Engineering / Microfluidics
Current research interests focus on the fields of applied micro process engineering and polymeric nano-materials.
3. Professional Career
1986 – 1992
Study of Chemistry at the Philipps-Universität Marburg.
1995
PhD thesis at the Institute for Polymers, University Marburg.
1995 – 2000
Scientific assistant at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
2000/01
Visiting scientist, Dept. of Chemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
2001 – 2009
Research assistant and assistant professor in Mainz.
2003
Habilitation in physical chemistry.
2009 – 2011
Head of the Division Durability of Polymers at BAM Federal Institute of Materials Research and Testing, Berlin.
2011 – 2013
CEO of the Institut für Mikrotechnik Mainz GmbH (IMM).
Since 2011
Univ.-Professor at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz in the field of Chemical Process Engineering / Microfluidics
Since 2014
Executive Director of Fraunhofer IMM
4. Stipends, awards, scholarships
2000
Research Award of the Boehringer-Ingelheim Foundation, Mainz
06/00–05/01
Research Scholarship of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina, Halle
2002
Research Scholarship for highly qualified young scientists of the Materials Science Research Center, Mainz
2004
Research Award of the Emil-and-Paul-Müller-Memorial-Foundation, Mainz
2005
Award of the Research Foundation of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz
2010/11
Principal Investigator at the BCRT Berlin-Brandbg, Center for Regenerative Therapies, Berlin
2010/11
Award of the Helmholtz-Academy of Young Researchers (Scientific Management)
In 2015
Maskos together with two colleagues won the Literature Prize of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie for the textbook “Polymers: Synthesis,Characteristics and Applications”.