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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2015	Backes, C., Winters, S., Berner, N.C., Yim, C., Duembgen, K.C., Kaminska, I., Mackowski, S., Cafolla, A.A., Hirsch, A., Düsberg, G.S., 2015. Understanding and optimising the packing density of perylene bisimide layers on CVD-grown graphene. Nanoscale 7, 16337–16342. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5nr04772b
2014	Backes, C., Smith, R.J., McEvoy, N., Berner, N.C., McCloskey, D., Nerl, H.C., O’Neill, A., King, P.J., Higgins, T., Hanlon, D., Scheuschner, N., Maultzsch, J., Houben, L., Düsberg, G.S., Donegan, J.F., Nicolosi, V., Coleman, J.N., 2014. Edge and confinement effects allow in situ measurement of size and thickness of liquid-exfoliated nanosheets. Nature Communications 5, 4576. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms5576
2014	Hanlon, D., Backes, C., Higgins, T.M., Hughes, M., O’Neill, A., King, P.J., McEvoy, N., Düsberg, G.S., Sanchez, B.M., Pettersson, H., Nicolosi, V., Coleman, J.N., 2014. Production of Molybdenum Trioxide Nanosheets by Liquid Exfoliation and Their Application in High-Performance Supercapacitors. Chemistry of Materials 26, 1751–1763. https://doi.org/10.1021/cm500271u
2014	Paton, K.R., Varrla, E., Backes, C., Smith, R.J., Khan, U., O’Neill, A., Boland, C.S., Lotya, M., Istrate, O.M., King, P.J., Higgins, T., Barwich, S., May, P., Puczkarski, P., Ahmed, I., Moebius, M., Pettersson, H., Long, E., Coelho, J., O’Brien, S.E., McGuire, E.K., Sanchez, B.M., Düsberg, G.S., McEvoy, N., Pennycook, T.J., Downing, C., Crossley, A., Nicolosi, V., Coleman, J.N., 2014. Scalable production of large quantities of defect-free few-layer graphene by shear exfoliation in liquids. Nature Materials 13, 624–630. https://doi.org/10.1038/NMAT3944
2014	Boland, C.S., Khan, U., Backes, C., O’Neill, A., McCauley, J., Duane, S., Shanker, R., Liu, Y., Jurewicz, I., Dalton, A.B., Coleman, J.N., 2014. Sensitive, High-Strain, High-Rate Bodily Motion Sensors Based on Graphene-Rubber Composites. ACS Nano 8, 8819–8830. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn503454h
2014	Varrla, E., Paton, K.R., Backes, C., Harvey, A., Smith, R.J., McCauley, J., Coleman, J.N., 2014. Turbulence-assisted shear exfoliation of graphene using household detergent and a kitchen blender. Nanoscale 6, 11810–11819. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4nr03560g
2013	Jakubka, F., Backes, C., Gannott, F., Mundloch, U., Hauke, F., Hirsch, A., Zaumseil, J., 2013. Mapping Charge Transport by Electroluminescence in Chirality-Selected Carbon Nanotube Networks. ACS Nano 7, 7428–7435. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn403419d
2013	Cunningham, G., Khan, U., Backes, C., Hanlon, D., McCloskey, D., Donegan, J.F., Coleman, J.N., 2013. Photoconductivity of solution-processed MoS2 films. Journal of Materials Chemistry C 1, 6899–6904. https://doi.org/10.1039/c3tc31402b
2013	Wang, Z., Mohammadzadeh, S., Schmaltz, T., Kirschner, J., Khassanov, A., Eigler, S., Mundloch, U., Backes, C., Steinrueck, H.-G., Magerl, A., Hauke, F., Hirsch, A., Halik, M., 2013. Region-Selective Self-Assembly of Functionalized Carbon Allotropes from Solution. ACS Nano 7, 11427–11434. https://doi.org/10.1021/nn405488n
2013	Backes, C., Hauke, F., Hirsch, A., 2013. Tuning the adsorption of perylene-based surfactants on the surface of single-walled carbon nanotubes. physica status solidi (b) 250, 2592–2598. https://doi.org/10.1002/pssb.201300109