Prof. Dr. Birgit Esser

Birgit Esser studied Chemistry at the Universities of Heidelberg, Germany, and Bristol, UK, and obtained her PhD from the University of Heidelberg under the supervision of Prof. Rolf Gleiter in 2008. After a postdoctoral stay in the group of Timothy M. Swager at MIT she started her independent career in 2012 at the University of Bonn. Since 2015, she is professor for Molecular/Organic Functional Materials at the University of Freiburg. Her scientific interests include the design and synthesis of electrode materials for organic batteries, conjugated small molecules and polymers for optoelectronics, supramolecular donor-acceptor interactions as well as the synthesis and investigation of cyclic conjugated molecules.