Career and Vacancies

Highly-motivated chemistry students looking for a challenge in the synthesis (and characterisation) of catalytic systems, dyestuffs, liquid crystals and natural products are welcome to apply for a research internship, a bachelor thesis, a master thesis , PhD. thesis or postdoctoral position.

For those seeking jobs in one of our fields of research, please contact Prof. Dr. Sabine Laschat for more information concerning available places. In the case of a bachelor thesis, students are encouraged to contact the PhD. students directly.

The University of Stuttgart represents outstanding, world-renowned research and first-class teaching in one of Europe's most dynamic industrial regions. As a reliable employer, the university supports and promotes the academic careers of its researchers. It is proud of its employees, who currently come from over 100 different countries. The university is a partner for knowledge and technology transfer and focuses on multidisciplinarity.

Our research group at the Institute of Organic Chemistry is a synthetically oriented group focus on:

• total syntheses of biologically active natural products for drug development
• catalysis (e.g. within the framework of the CRC1333)
• syntheses of liquid crystals and functional materials

In collaboration with the group of Prof. E. Hegmann from the Liquid Crystal Institute and the Department of Biological Sciences at Kent State University we want develop new Liquid Crystal Elastomers (LCEs), which have been long sought as artificial tissues based on a combination of orientational ordering, induced by liquid crystalline moieties, and elastic properties of polymers. Studies of LCE scaffold–cell interactions showed that the presence of liquid crystal moieties promotes cell alignment paving the way for a stimulated brain-like tissue. (E. Hegmann et al., Soft Matter, 2018, 14, 354-360. DOI: 10.1039/c7sm01949a)

As a master student in our research group, you are a main part of our interdisciplinary team and you will focus on the following topics:

• Synthesis of novel biocompatible liquid crystals (LCs)
• Crosslinking of the liquid crystalline moieties to block-copolymers to obtain liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs)
• Investigation of the mesomorphic properties by polarizing optical microscopy (POM), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and X-ray diffraction (WAXS, SAXS)

Are you interested in developing professionally and would like to deepen your study contents? Do you have basic experience in the field of organic and/or polymer synthesis and are you interested in working on an innovative concept?

Then get in touch with us!

Contact Details

Prof. Dr. Sabine Laschat

Institut für Organische Chemie

Tel.  0049-(0)711/685 64565

E-Mail: sabine.laschat@oc.uni-stuttgart.de

The range of employment possibilities for chemists is about as multifaceted as chemistry itself. Hence, chemists from the Laschat Research Group have, since graduating, found themselves in a wide variety of jobs in places all around the world. Given here is a table, which lists the companies whom some previous members of our group have found employment with since graduating.