Katja Loos

Katja Loos is professor at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands holding the chair of Macromolecular Chemistry and New Polymeric Materials.[1][2]

Katja Loos
Katja Loos
Born1971
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Alma materJohannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany
Known forEnzymatic Polymerizations, Block Copolymers, Supramolecular Chemistry
Scientific career
FieldsPolymer Chemistry, Material Science, Applied Chemistry
ThesisHybridmaterialien mit Amylose durch enzymatische grafting from Polymerisation (2001)
Doctoral advisorAxel H. E. Müller, Reimund Stadler
Websitehttps://www.rug.nl/research/polymer-chemistry

Biography

Katja Loos studied chemistry at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz, Germany and graduated in 1996. During her graduate studies she focused her studies on Organic Chemistry and Polymer Chemistry. In 1992 and 1993 she was an international exchange student at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, USA.[3]

In 2001, she received her PhD in Macromolecular Chemistry from the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Her thesis was focused on hybrid materials bearing amylose using enzymatic polymerizations.[4] During her PhD research she worked in 1997 as an international exchange researcher at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.[3]

In 2001, she received a Feodor Lynen research fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to conduct postdoctoral research at the Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, NY, USA, where she worked on fundamentals of self-assembled monolayers and immobilization supports for biocatalysts.[5][6]

In 2003, she started an independent research group at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.[3]

Katja Loos worked as guest professor at the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain in 2006 and at the Technical University Dresden, Germany in 2016.

Research

The research of Katja Loos is currently focused on enzymatic polymerization,[7][8] especially the biocatalytic synthesis of saccharides,[9] polyamides[10] and furan based polymers,[11] as well as the synthesis and self-assembly of block copolymers[12][13] using supramolecular motifs[14] and containing ferroelectric blocks.[15]

Katja Loos published over 210 scholarly peer-reviewed publications, various patents and book chapters.[16][17] Her publications frequently get included in special themed collections of scientific journals like “Women in Polymer Science” from Wiley[18] en “Women at the Forefront of Chemistry” of the American Chemical Society[19]

She is the editor of the only currently available textbook in the field of Enzymatic Polymerizations.[20]

She is editor of the scientific journal Polymer,[21] associate editor of the scientific journals Journal of Renewable Materials[22] and Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology[23] and member of the editorial advisory board of Advances in Polymer Technology[24] and Polymers.[25] She guest-edited special issues of various scientific journals.[26][27][28]

Since 2017 she is a member of the board of the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials of the University of Groningen.[29] She serves as the vice-chair of the program council Chemistry of Advanced Materials of ChemistryNL,[30] a member of the board of the MaterialenNL Platform[31] and is a member of the board of the Dutch national postgraduate research school Polymer Technology Netherlands (PTN).[32]

Katja Loos is the national representative of the Netherlands to the European Polymer Federation (EPF).[33]

In addition to her research, Katja Loos advocates for diversity in science[34] and open access publishing[35]

Awards and honours

Katja Loos was awarded two travel scholarships of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for research stays at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, USA, in 1992 and 1993 and at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil, in 1997.

In 2001, she received a Feodor Lynen Fellowship award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to conduct her postdoctoral research.[36]

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) awarded her a VIDI innovational research grant in 2009[37] and a VICI innovational research grant in 2014[38]

In 2016 the Technical University Dresden and the German Research Council (DFG) within the scope of its excellency initiative awarded her the Eleonore Trefftz guest professorship.[39][40]

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation awarded Katja Loos in 2019 the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award.[41][42]

In 2019, she was named "Topper of the year" by Science Guide.[43]

Katja Loos is a Fellow of the Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI)[44] and the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)[45]

References
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  4. Loos, Katja (2001). Hybridmaterialien mit Amylose durch enzymatische grafting from Polymerisation (Doctoral thesis thesis). Berlin: Tenea.
  5. "Humboldt Foundation". www.humboldt-foundation.de. Retrieved 2020-08-18.
  6. "Laboratory of Biocatalysis & Bioprocessing – RPI". homepages.rpi.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-18.
  7. Reinshagen, Paul (2011-12-15). "Enzymatic polymerisation. New!". Bio Based Press. Retrieved 2020-08-18.
  8. "'Zeuren op hoog niveau' – VPRO Tegenlicht". VPRO (in Dutch). Retrieved 2020-08-18.
  9. Adharis, Azis; Loos, Katja (2019). "Green Synthesis of Glycopolymers Using an Enzymatic Approach". Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics. 220 (20): 1900219. doi:10.1002/macp.201900219. ISSN 1022-1352.
  10. Maniar, Dina; Hohmann, Katharina F.; Jiang, Yi; Woortman, Albert J. J.; van Dijken, Jur; Loos, Katja (2018-06-30). "Enzymatic Polymerization of Dimethyl 2,5-Furandicarboxylate and Heteroatom Diamines". ACS Omega. 3 (6): 7077–7085. doi:10.1021/acsomega.8b01106. ISSN 2470-1343. PMC 6150640. PMID 30259005.
  11. "Green alternative to PET could be even greener". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 2020-08-18.
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  14. Hofman, Anton H.; Reza, Mehedi; Ruokolainen, Janne; ten Brinke, Gerrit; Loos, Katja (2016-10-10). "Hierarchical Layer Engineering Using Supramolecular Double-Comb Diblock Copolymers". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 55 (42): 13081–13085. doi:10.1002/anie.201606890. PMC 5113798. PMID 27633842.
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  29. "Zernike Board". University of Groningen. 2011-11-30. Retrieved 2020-08-18.
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  37. "Toekenningen Vidi 2009".
  38. "Toekenningen Vici 2013".
  39. "New Eleonore-Trefftz-Visiting-Professor at the chair".
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  41. "Humboldt Foundation". www.humboldt-foundation.de. Retrieved 2020-08-18.
  42. "Professor Katja Loos wint Research Award van de Alexander von Humboldt Foundation". Groningen – City of Talent (in Dutch). Retrieved 2020-08-18.
  43. "Dit zijn de toppers van het collegejaar '18|'19". ScienceGuide (in Dutch). 2019-09-02. Retrieved 2020-08-17.
  44. "DPI Fellow Katja Loos: Polymers go "green"".
  45. "Katja Loos has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)". 2018-03-26.
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