Thomas Heinze

Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany

Prof. Thomas Heinze studied chemistry at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena. He later worked as a professor at the University of Wuppertal, Friedrich Schiller University, was a distinguished professor at Åbo Akademi University Turku, and a visiting professor at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna.

Among other things, he was the program manager of Cellulose and Cellulose Derivatives in Germany, vice chairman of the supervisory board of the Research Center for Medical Technology and Biotechnology GmbH, curator of the Thuringian Institute of Textile and Plastics Research in Germany, and scientific advisor in various international companies.

He has received several awards, including the Best PhD at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (Promotionspreis, in 1990), the Anselme Payen Award of the American Chemical Society in 2010, the Dr Edmund Thiele Denkmünze, Zellcheming Association in 2012, and the Thuringian Research Award for Ultrasensitive immunoassays for emergency medicine based on nanostructured polymer membranes in 2014.

He regularly participates in projects with the University of Maribor within EU Framework Programs.