Prof. Sabine Szunerits
HEAD OF DIAGNOSTICS AND LIFE SCIENCE
Prof. Sabine Szunerits
HEAD OF DIAGNOSTICS AND LIFE SCIENCE
From Diagnostics to Nanomedicine
Sabine Szunerits, an Austrian educated native, received her PhD at the University of London in 1998 in the field of Electrochemistry. She completed research fellowships in the research group of Pr. Christian Amatore at ENS Paris, and Pr. David Walt at Tufts University, Boston, USA) before being appointed Professor at INPGrenoble (ranking among the best French Engineering Schools for its research) in 2004. She joined the University of Lille, notably the Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and nanotechnology (IEMN), in 2009 as Full Professor in Chemistry and is since 2022 scientifically engaged as Head of the LiST laboratory on Diagnostics and Life Science related aspects. Dr. Szunerits’s research is very interdisciplinary and has made her the mentor of a large variety of students coming to her laboratory from different places. It might be her additional interest in social science, with obtained MA from the Open University of London, what makes her sensitive and open to consider diversity and inclusion in research.
While some may believe the Holy Grail in medicine is a “cure-all treatment”, many believe the real Holy Grail is related to easy, inexpensive, and rapid diagnostics in the point-of-care format.
Prof. Dr. Christoph Kleber
HEAD OF MATERIALS FOR HEALTH
Christoph Kleber (male, 49 y/o; Google Scholar h-Index:18), is Full Professor of Chemistry at DPU Krems. He received his Diploma in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry in 1999 and his PhD in the field of Analytical Chemistry in 2002 at the Technical University Vienna. He was appointed as Professor for Biotechnology at the University of Applied Sciences in Krems in 2005 and finished his habilitation in Material Science in 2009. In 2010 he was appointed as Scientific Director and CEO of Austria’s Centre of Excellence for Electrochemical Surface Technology (CEST) in Wiener Neustadt. Since 2016 he is visiting professor at the JKU Linz at the Institute of Prof. Hassel and since 2019 at the DPU. His scientific work focused on the interface between various materials and their ambient atmospheres to elucidate the mechanisms of (bio) degradation at a molecular level with respect to sensing materials. He was project leader and/or partner in 21 grants, published 58 articles. Including COMET projects he was responsible for the coordination of 44 industrial and 29 University partners in a few tens of projects with an overall budget of approximately 40. Mio. Euros in the last 10 years.
Prof. Dr. Christoph Kleber
HEAD OF MATERIALS FOR HEALTH
Research focuses on the development and characterization of novel materials and coatings with tailored properties for the application in medical
devices/products and
sensors based on a combinatorial approach
with the aim to fulfill all necessary regulatory demands.
