Scientific Degrees:

Diploma in Physics / Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (2005)
PhD (Dr. rer. medic.) in Medical Sciences / Uniklinikum Münster  (2008)
PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Physics / Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (2009)
Habilitation (Priv.-Doz.) in Physics / Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (2017)

Current and Previous Positions: 

Scientific Fellow at the Physical Institute of the WWU Münster (2005-2009)
Scientific Fellow at the Institute of Nanotechnology (INT) of KIT (2010-ongoing)
Journal Editor Nanofabrication, De Gruyter Open (2013-ongoing)
Visiting Fellow at Nanyang Technological University Singapore, School of Materials Science & Engineering (in 2013)
Research Visit at Northwestern University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering (in 2014)
YIN-Speaker Transdisciplinary Committee (2015/2016)
KIT Associate Fellow (2016-2017)
Editorial Board Member Scientific Reports, Springer Nature (2017-ongoing)

Grants and Awards: 

CeNTech-Day Award 2009 for the project „Structuring Polymer Brushes by LB- and AFM-Lithography”

KIT STUB Grant (Start-Up Budget) 2011, project „Substrate-independent and multiplexed Dip-Pen Nanolithography with Azide Inks on reactive Coatings for Bio-Applications“

Invitation to the DFG NSF Research Conference 2011 “Bioinspired Design and Engineering of Novel Functional Materials”, 22-25.3.2011, New York. Talk: "Writing Bio-Molecules via Dip-Pen Nanolithography - Towards a general Toolbox for the Immobilization of bioactive Molecules on Surfaces"

Tan Chin Tuan Exchange Fellowship at Nanyang Technological University Singapore (2013)

DAAD PPP Exchange with Taiwan at National Taiwan University (Project-ID 56193375) (2013)

Coordinator and Scientific Supervisor for Marie Curie Actions (in call FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF) Grant for Project “DPNLipidMembranes” (2013-2015)

“Best Talk given by a Young Scientist” Prize at the 17th Heiligenstädter Colloquium on “Technical Systems for the Life Sciences” (2014)

Member of the Karlsruhe Young Investigator Network (YIN) (2014-2016, Alumnus since 2016)

YIN Grant 2015 "Towards Massively Parallelized Electrochemical Dip-Pen Nanolithography" (2015)

Partner in ERC proof-of-concept grant "CTC-Capture" (2015-2016)

DFG Project "Funktionalisierte optomechanische Schaltkreise aus Diamant für Infrarotspektroskopie und Gassensorik" (HI 1724/3-1) (2015-)

YIN Grant 2017 "Nanoscale Biofunctionalization of Polymer Brushes by Dip-Pen Nanolithography" (2017)

Partner in ERC proof-of-concept grant "CTC-Capture 2.0" (2017-2018)

"High-End Foreign Talent" of Shanxi Province, China (2018)

Selected recent Publications:

• C. Lutz, U. Bog, T. Loritz, J. Syurik, S. Malik, C. N. S. Kumar, C. Kübel, M. Bruns, C. Greiner, M. Hirtz, H. Hölscher:
  Locally Controlled Growth of Individual Lambda‐Shaped Carbon Nanofibers
  Small 15, 1803944 (2019) DOI: 10.1002/smll.201803944
• J. Atwater, D. S. Mattes, B. Streit, C. von Bojničić‐Kninski, F. F. Loeffler, F. Breitling, H. Fuchs, M. Hirtz:
  Combinatorial Synthesis of Macromolecular Arrays by Microchannel Cantilever Spotting (µCS)
  Adv. Mater. 30, 1801632 (2018) DOI: 10.1002/adma.201801632
• U. Bog, A. de los Santos Pereira, S. L. Mueller, S. Havenridge, V. Parrillo, M. Bruns, A. E. Holmes, C. Rodriguez-Emmenegger, H. Fuchs, M. Hirtz:
  Clickable Antifouling Polymer Brushes for Polymer Pen Lithography
  ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 9, 12109 (2017) DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b01184
• R. Kumar, S. Weigel, R. Meyer, C. M. Niemeyer, H. Fuchs, M. Hirtz:
  Multi-Color Polymer Pen Lithography for Oligonucleotide Arrays
  Chemical Communications 52, 12310 (2016) DOI: 10.1039/C6CC07087F
• A. Urtizberea, M. Hirtz:
  A diffusive ink transport model for lipid dip-pen nanolithography
  Nanoscale 7, 15618 (2015) DOI: 10.1039/C5NR04352B

A full publication list can be found under: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-8821-2011