Tanja Weil

Prof. Dr. Tanja Weil has been Director at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPIP) since 2017. She also served as Managing Director of MPIP from 2022 to 2024. She studied chemistry (1993-1998) at the TU Braunschweig (Germany) and the University of Bordeaux I (France) and received her PhD from MPIP in 2002 under the supervision of Prof. Klaus Müllen. From 2002 to 2008, she held various leading positions at Merz Pharmaceuticals GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany. In 2008, she accepted a position as Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore. Since 2010, Tanja Weil has been Director of the Institute of Organic Chemistry III at the University of Ulm. She has received competitive grants and awards at both national and international level, including the Karl Ziegler Prize of the German Chemical Society (GDCh), the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society, a Synergy Grant of the European Research Council (ERC), the Science Award of the City of Ulm, the Netherlands Supramolecular Chemistry Scholar Award and the Laureate Dr. Manfred Jäger Symposium, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. She is a member of the Senate of the German Research Foundation as well as of the Leibniz Association and serves as Associate Editor for JACS. Her scientific interests are in the field of (bio)materials research and material-cell interactions.