Uni.-Prof. Claudia Backes - Research Information System | University of Kassel

Dr. Claudia Backes

Work Experience

10/2021	Professor in Physical Chemistry of Nanomaterials, Kassel University
10/2015 - 09/2021	Junior Research Group Leader (DFG Emmy Noether from 04/2016), Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg, Germany
11/2012 - 09/2015	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
05/2011 - 10/2012	Scientific Coordinator and Deputy Executive Director, Cluster of Excellence Engineering of Advanced Materials, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Offers for professorships

28.08.2020

Physikalische Chemie mit dem Schwerpunkt Angewandte Physikalische Chemie
FU Berlin

Academic background

11/2007-04/2011- Doctoral Research (Dr. rer nat., summa cum laude), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Thesis Title: “Fundamental Aspects of
Noncovalent Functionalisation of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Water”

08/2007- Master of Science in Molecular Nano Science, Friedrich-Alexander
University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

07/2005- Bachelor of Science in Molecular Nano Science, Friedrich-Alexander
University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

Awards

11/2019	ETH Zürich “Materials Research Prize for Young Investigators”
11/2019	Web of Science highly cited scientist (cross-field)
10/2018	Lautenschläger Preis für Nachwuchswissenschaftlter in Heidelberg
07/2017	Hengstberger Preis zur Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses in Heidelberg
04/2016	Emmy Noether Förderung der Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
2012	Springer Theses Award recognising outstanding PhD Theses

Memberships and non-academic activities

since 10/2022	Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) Mitglied, Orstverbandsvorsitzende Kassel
since 05/2022	Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Vertrauensdozentin der Uni Kassel

Publications

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2023	Synnatschke, K., van Dinter, J., Müller Corrales, A., Tiede, D., Spillecke, L., Shao, S., Kelly, D.J., Konecny, J., Konkena, B., McCrystall, M., Saigal, N., Wurstbauer, U., Bensch, W., Sofer, Z., Coleman, J.N., Klingeler, R., Haigh, S.J., Backes, C., 2023. Exfoliablity, magnetism, energy storage and stability of metal thiophosphate nanosheets made in liquid medium. 2D Materials 10, 024003. https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/acba2c
2023
2023	Shcherbakov, A., Synnatschke, K., Bodnar, S., Zerhoch, J., Eyre, L., Rauh, F., Heindl, M.W., Liu, S., Konecny, J., Sharp, I.D., Sofer, Z., Backes, C., Deschler, F., 2023. Solution-processed NiPS3 thin films from Liquid Exfoliated Inks with Long-Lived Spin-Entangled Excitons. ACS Nano. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2303.11788Miranda, H., Monken, V., Campos, J.L.E., Vasconcelos, T.L., Rabelo, C., Archanjo, B.S., Almeida, C.M., Grieger, S., Backes, C., Jorio, A., Gustavo Cançcado, L., 2022. Establishing the excitation field in tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy to study nanostructures within two-dimensional systems. 2D Materials 10, 2–9. https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/ac988f
2023
2023	Synnatschke, K., Jonak, M., Storm, A., Laha, S., Köster, J., Petry, J., Ott, S., Szydłowska, B.M., Duesberg, G.S., Kaiser, U., Klingeler, R., Lotsch, B.V., Backes, C., 2023. Sonication-assisted liquid exfoliation and size-dependent properties of magnetic two-dimensional α-RuCl₃. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 56, 274001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/accc3eChen, T., Kaur, H., McCrystall, M., Tian, R., Roy, A., Smith, R., Horvath, D.V., Maughan, J., Konkena, B., Venkatesan, M., Synnatschke, K., Carey, T., Liu, J., Pepper, J., Zhang, R., Backes, C., Nicolosi, V., Xia, H., Coleman, J.N., 2022. Liquid phase exfoliation of nonlayered non-van der Waals iron trifluoride (FeF3) into 2D-platelets for high-capacity lithium storing cathodes. FlatChem 33, 100360. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flatc.2022.100360
2022	Gosch, J., Synnatschke, K., Stock, N., Backes, C., 2022. Comparative study of sonication-assisted liquid phase exfoliation of six layered coordination polymers. Chemical Communications 59, 55–58. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2cc03366f
2022
2022	Backes, C., 2022. Fragile nanosheets stripped from crystals. Nature 602, 582–583. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00466-z
2022	Ersu, G., Kuriakose, S., Goldie, S.J., Al-Enizi, A.M., Nafady, A., Munuera, C., Backes, C., Island, J.O., Castellanos-Gomez, A., 2022. Improving the conductivity of graphite-based films by rapid laser annealing. Nanoscale Advances 4, 4724–4729. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2na00557c
2022