Jürgen Groll
Managing director of the Institute of Functional Materials and Biofabrication (IFB)
Head of the Center of Polymers for Life (CPL)
University of Würzburg,
Germany
Jürgen Groll received his Ph.D. in 2004 from the RWTH Aachen (Germany) with summa cum laude after working under the guidance of Martin Möller. From 2005 to 2009, he worked in industry at SusTech GmbH & Co KG (Darmstadt, Germany) in the field of functional coatings and nanotechnology. In parallel, he built up a research group on polymeric biomaterials at the DWI interactive materials research institute in Aachen (Germany). Since 2010 he is full Professor (W3) and holds the chair for Functional Materials in Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Würzburg.
His research interest comprises applied polymer chemistry, bioinspired materials and scaffolds, immunomodulation and biofabrication. He was awarded an ERC consolidator grant (Design2Heal, contract no° 617989) in 2013 as well as an ERC proof-of-concept grant (Design2Flow, contract no 899609) in 2019. He currently is spokesman of the Collaborative research Center TRR 225 “From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models” (http://trr225biofab.de/), an integrated funding scheme of the German Research Foundation (DFG) that has started January 2018 and is now running in the second funding phase between the Universities of Würzburg, Bayreuth and Erlangen-Nürnberg, comprising 20 research projects that are guided by 36 PIs.
He also acts as managing director of the Institute of Functional Materials and Biofabrication (IFB) and leads the Center of Polymers for Life (CPL), both institutions of the university of Würzburg. He has published over 250 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals (ORCID-ID: 0000-0003-3167-8466).
