Prof. Dr. Klaus D. Jandt

• Materials for drug delivery
• Antimicrobial materials for healthcare and mobility applications
• Materials for tissue regeneration and replacement
• Bioactive und biodegradable bone cements
• Materials for life sciences
• Protein adsorption at materials surfaces and protein nanofiber based materials
• Self-organization of biomolecule based materials
• Functional biointerfaces
• Carbon based materials (graphene, carbon nanotubes) for nanocomposites and sensor applications
• Photopolymerizable and microwavepolymerizable materials
• Polymer-microstructuring, -morphology and thermodynamics
• Polymer blends and copolymers
• Fiber reinforced composites
• Phase boundaries of
  • biomaterials
  • polymers
  • ceramics
  • composites
• Biomimetics and bioinspired materials
• Biological materials
• Optical irradiation devices and LED based devices
• Microscopy and spectroscopy methods

• since 2001

C4 Full Professor, Chair in Materials Science, Otto Schott Institute of Materials Research (OSIM). Friedrich Schiller University Jena

• 2001

Reader in Biomedical Engineering and Biomaterials Science, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

• 1996 - 2001

Senior Lecturer in Dental Materials Science and Biomaterials, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

• 1994 - 1996
  • Feodor Lynen Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

• 1993
  • Research Scientist, Physics Department, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
  • PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in materials science, Hamburg University of Technology

• 1989 - 1993
  • Research Assistant at the Hamburg University of Technology

• 1989
  • Product Development Engineer, Solid State Imaging Sensors, Philips Components, Hamburg

• 1982 - 1989
  • Study of Physics, Biophysics, Astronomy and Maths, Dipl.-Phys., Hamburg, Germany

Summary: Approximately 450 publications, approx. 14.650 citations in international journals (Source: Google Scholar, July 2022). Current h-Index: 63, i10 index: 166.

Ten Most Significant Publications

 1. Cao H, Dauben T, Helbing C, Jia Z, Zhang Y, Huang M, Müller L, Gu S, Zhang X, Qin H, Martin K, Bossert J, Jandt KD. The antimicrobial effect of calcium-doped titanium is activated by fibrinogen adsorption. Mater Horiz 2022.

2. Scheuer K, Bandelli D, Helbing C, Weber C, Alex J, Max JB, Hocken A, Stranik O, Seiler L, Gladigau F, Neugebauer U, Schacher FH, Schubert US, Jandt KD. Self-assembly of copolyesters into stereocomplex crystallites tunes the properties of polyester nanoparticles. Macromol 2020, 53: 8340-8351.

3.  Cao H, Liu X, Jandt KD. The action-network of nanomaterials in On the issue of transparency and reproducibility in nanomedicine. Nature Nanotechnol 2019, 14: 629-635.

4.  Zhang W, Yu X, Li Y, Jandt KD, Wei G. Protein-mimetic peptide nanofibers: Motif design, self-assembly synthesis, and sequence-specific biomedical applications Progr Polym Sci 2019, 80: 94-124.

5. Firkowska-Boden I, Zhang X, Jandt KD. Controlling protein adsorption through nanostructured polymeric surfaces. Adv Healthcare Mater 2018, 7: 1700995.

6.. Helbing C, Deckert-Gaudig, T, Firkowska-Boden I, Wei G, Deckert V, Jandt KD. Protein handshake on the nanoscale: How albumin and hemoglobin self-assemble into nanohybrid fibers. ACS Nano 2018, 12: 1211-1219.

7.  Diefenbeck M, Schrader C, Gras F, Mückley T, Schmidt J, Zankovych S, Bossert J, Jandt KD et. al. Gentamicin coating of plasma chemical oxidized titanium alloy prevents implant-related osteomyelitis in rats. Biomater 2016, 101: 156-164.

8. Jandt KD, Mills RW. A brief history of LED photopolymerization. Dent Mater 2013, 29: 605-617.

9. Zhang JT, Nie J, Mühlstädt M, Gallagher H, Pullig O, Jandt KD. Stable extracellular matrix protein patterns guide the orientation of osteoblast-like cells. Adv Funct Mater 2011, 21: 4079-4087.

10.  Keller TF, Schönfelder J, Reichert J, Tuccitto, N, Licciardello, Messina GML, Marletta G, Jandt KD. How the surface nanostructure of polyethylene affects protein assembly and orientation. ACS Nano 2011, 5: 3120-3131.