Prof. Gerd-Uwe Flechsig

Gerd-Uwe Flechsig

Scientific CV

1992-1997
Studies of chemistry at University of Rostock, Germany

Feb. 1996 to May 1996
Research stay at NTNU in Trondheim (Norway) in the lab of Prof. Signe Kjelstrup

Juli 1997
Diploma thesis at University of Rostock under supervision of Prof. Peter Gründler about "Determination of Arsenic(V) on Electrically Heated Gold Electrodes"

1997-2001
Ph.D. student in the lab of Prof. Peter Gründler, University of Rostock

Oct. 1998 to Feb. 1999
Research stay at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA in the lab of Prof. Joseph Wang

Aug. 2000 to Dec. 2000
Industry fellow at Institut für organische Katalyseforschung e.V. at University of Rostock in the lab of Prof. Uwe Rosenthal

Jan. 2001 to Sept. 2005
Scientific Assistant with Prof. Peter Gründler, University of Rostock

Jan. 2001 to April 2001
Research stay at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA in the lab of Prof. Joseph Wang

Aug. 2001
Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.), Thesis about "Electrochemical Stripping-Analysis on Electrically Heated Electrodes"

since Aug. 2001
Habilitand in the group of Prof. Peter Gründler, University of Rostock

since July 2003
Principal Investigator in a newly established junior scientists group

Feb. 2005 to March 2005
Visiting Assistant Professor at Arizona State University in the lab of Prof. Joseph Wang

Oct. 2005 to Aug. 2008
Scientific Assistant with Prof. Udo Kragl, University of Rostock

Dec. 2006
Habilitation (Dr. habil., D.Sc.), topic of professorial thesis: "Investigations on Heated Electrodes in particular for the Analysis of Nucleic Acids"

Feb. 2007
Privatdozent (Private lecturer) in Analytical Chemistry

Feb. 2007 to March 2007
Visiting Scholar at Arizona State University, Tempe, USA in the lab of Prof. Joseph Wang

April 2007 to Nov. 2007
Interim Prof. of Analytical Chemistry at University of Rostock

Feb. 2008 to March 2008
Visiting Academic at Oxford University, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, England, Group of Prof. Richard G. Compton

Sept. 2008 to Aug. 2013
DFG Heisenberg Fellow

Oct. 2008 to April 2009
Visiting Scholar at the University of California, San Diego, USA in the lab of Prof. Joseph Wang

since June 2009
Co-founder and principal scientist, Gensoric GmbH, Rostock

Feb. 2010 to April 2010
Visiting Academic at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia in the lab of Prof. Eric Bakker

Oct 2011 to Sept. 2012
Interim Prof. in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Siegen, Germany

Sept. 2013 to Aug. 2014
Lecturer in Nano- and Inorganic Chemistry, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Aug. 2014 to Jan. 2019
Asst. Professor of Chemistry, University at Albany, SUNY, United States

since Feb. 2019
Professor of Environmental and Analytical Chemistry at Coburg University, Germany

Awards

1989
Lessing-Medal in Silver, General Polytechnical School, Teterow
1991
1st Award in Physics, State contest for young scientists "Jugend forscht", Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany

1992
1st Award in Chemistry and Special Award in Technology, State contest for young scientists "Jugend forscht", Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany

1992
2nd Award in Chemistry, Federal contest for young scientists "Jugend forscht", Duisburg, Germany

2003
Metrohm-Award, ELACH 6 Conference, Vienna, Austria

2007
Excellence Funding Program Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Sector of Technology Transfer

2008
Heisenberg Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

2009
Innovation Forum Grant Award of the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research

Editorial Board Memberships

1. Chemical Sensors (2010, Simplex Academic Publishers)
2. Global Journal of Analytical Chemistry (2010, Simplex Academic Publishers)

3. Guest Editor for a special issue of Sensors (2016, MDPI)

4. International Journal of Electrochemistry (since 2010, Hindawi)

5. Advances in Chemistry (2013 - 2017, Hindawi)

6. Heliyon (since 2015, Elsevier)

7. Chemosensors (since 2018, MDPI)

Service as Referee for Scientific Journals

Reviewer activities are recorded on Publons

More than 400 reviews for 64 journals such as:

Analyst (Royal Society of Chemistry)

Analytica Chimica Acta (Elsevier)

Analytical Chemistry (ACS)

Angewandte Chemie (Wiley-VCH)

Biosensors & Bioelectronics (Elsevier)

Chemical Communications (Royal Society of Chemistry)

Electroanalysis (Wiley-VCH)
Electrochemistry Communications (Elsevier)

Electrochimica Acta (Elsevier)

Journal of the Electrochemical Society (ECS)

Sensors & Actuators B Chemical (Elsevier)

Small (Wiley-VCH)

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