Tanja Junkers
Office: Building 23, Level 2, Room 220A
+61399054524tanja.junkers@monash.edu
Professional work
2018 - ongoing
Full Professor, School of Chemistry
Monash University -Australia
2018 - ongoing
Guest Professor
University Hasselt - Belgium
2010 - 2018
Professor, Organic and Bio-Polymer Chemistry
Institute for Materials Research, University Hasselt - Belgium
2010
Visiting Professor in the group Chemie Radicalaire Organique et Polymere de Spécialité
Université Aix-Marseille I - France
2008 - 2010
Senior Research Scientist in the MacroArc group, Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology -Germany
2006 - 2008
Research Associate at the Centre for Advanced Macromelecular Design, School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering,
University of New South Wales, Sydney - Australia
2005
Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Advanced Macromelecular Design, School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering
University of New South Wales, Sydney - Australia
1999 - 2006
Research Staff/Tutor at the Insitute for Physical Chemistry
Universität Göttingen - Germany
Education
2006 - 2010
Postdoc (Sydney) / Habilitation (Karlsruhe)
Group of Prof. Christopher Barner-Kowollik
2003 - 2006
Member of the DFG-funded graduate school 782, "Spectroscopy and dynamics of molecular aggregates, chains and coils".
2002 - 2006
PhD-thesis (Dr. rer. nat.) on the topic of "Novel Single Pulse - Pulsed Laser Polymerization Methods for the Determination of Chain-Length Dependent Termination Kinetics in Conventional and Controlled Free-Radical Polymerrization
Under supervision of Prof. Michael Buback.
1997 - 2002
Undergraduate studies in Chemistry at the Georgia Augusta Universität Göttingen and graduation with Diploma (M.SC.) on the topic "Terminierungskinetik der radikalischen Polymerisation von Methylmethacrylat bis zu hohen Umsätzen"
Under supervision of Prof. Michael Buback.
1977
Born in Leverkusen - Germany
Miscellaneous
2019 - ongoing
Editorial advisory board of the journal "ACS Macro Letters".
2018 - ongoing
Associate editor of the journal "Polymer Chemistry".
2018 - ongoing
Editorial advisory board of the journal "Macromolecules".
2016 - 2018
Editorial advisory board of the journal "Polymer Chemistry".
2015 - ongoing
Flow Chemistry Society.
2014
Carl-Duisberg Gedächnispreis der GDCh.
2010 - ongoing
Belgian Polymer Group.
2010 - ongoing
Editorial board of the open access journal "Polymers".
2010 - ongoing
Deutscher Hochschulverband.
2009 - 2010
Treasurer of the Karlsruher Chemische Gesellschaft (GDCh Ortsgruppe Karlsruhe).
2009 - ongoing
Member of the Subcommittee on Modelling of Polymerization Kinetics and Processes of the IUPAC Polymer Division.
2008 - ongoing
Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh).