Scientific Degrees:

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

Current and Previous Positions: 

Scientific Fellow at the Institute of Nanotechnology (INT) of KIT (2010-ongoing)
Editorial Board Member Scientific Reports, Springer Nature (2017-ongoing)
KIT Associate Fellow (2016-2017)
YIN-Speaker Transdisciplinary Committee (2015/2016)
Research Visit at Northwestern University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering (in 2014)
Journal Editor Nanofabrication, De Gruyter Open (2013-2019)
Visiting Fellow at Nanyang Technological University Singapore, School of Materials Science & Engineering (in 2013)
Scientific Fellow at the Physical Institute of the WWU Münster (2005-2009)

Grants and Awards: 

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

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

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

DFG Project "Funktionalisierte optomechanische Schaltkreise aus Diamant für Infrarotspektroskopie und Gassensorik" (HI 1724/3-1) (2015-2019)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"

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

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

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: https://publons.com/researcher/C-8821-2011/