Materials Science and Chemistry

Biography

Annabelle Bertin studied organic and inorganic chemistry at the University of Versailles (UVSQ), then specializing in chemistry and physico-chemistry of polymers at the University Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris, France, receiving a master degree in 2004. In 2007, she completed her PhD in chemistry at the University of Strasbourg (ULP) / Institute of Physics and Chemistry of Materials of Strasbourg (IPCMS), France, on the topic of dendron-based materials for biomedical applications. Afterwards, she spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow in the department of Colloid Chemistry at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (MPIKG) in Potsdam-Golm, Germany, where she worked on bioinspired polymers and composite materials. She then joined for one year the team of Prof. Percec at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), USA, where her research topic dealt with self-assembly of Janus dendrimers based on carbohydrates and amino acids as drug delivery systems. In 2011, she joined the German Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) in Berlin, Germany, as a postdoctoral fellow and became the same year project leader in the division “Polymers in Life Sciences and Nanotechnology”. Since 2012 she is assistant professor in organic polymer chemistry at the Free University Berlin in the department of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy and group leader of the research group "PolyNanotechBiomed" at BAM, in the department 6.0 Materials Protection and Surface Technologies.

Research Interest

Her main research interests are dendrons-based macromolecular and supramolecular architectures for biomedical applications (Focus: organic chemistry and physical chemistry of soft nanoparticles) and polymer-based (nano)composites for application in materials science such as sensing and mechanically reinforced composites (Focus: polymer chemistry, inorganic nanoparticle synthesis and materials science). The latest topic led her to develop novel thermoresponsive upper critical solution temperature (UCST)-type polymers. Another of her recent lines of research is hybrid organic-inorganic copolymers.