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).