The research work of Professor Zollfrank is focused on applying bioinspired synthetic methods to the development of innovative structural and functional materials. A key area of his work is the formation of biogenic (polymeric) structures and their conversion to composite materials for engineering and biomedical applications. The fundamental chemical and physical transformation processes involved in these conversions are investigated at each level of the structural hierarchy.
Cordt Zollfrank studied chemistry at TUM. He then changed to the Institute for Wood Research at LMU, which later became part of TUM, where he gained a PhD in forest science with a special emphasis on the chemical aspects. Between 2000 and 2002 he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Department of Materials Science and Engineering - Glass and Ceramics) conducting research focused on biomimetic material synthesis. As of 2002 he became a group leader (senior researcher) and set up a bioengineered ceramics and biomaterials research group. In 2009 he acquired his postdoctoral teaching qualification (habilitation) in material sciences. On October 1, 2011 he accepted the position as professor for biogenic polymers at TUM Campus Straubing.
- 2009
Habilitation – Materials Science – Bioinspired Materials
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Department of Materials Science and Engineering Glass and Ceramics- 2000
Dr. rer. silv. – Forest and Wood Sciences
Technische Universität München
Faculty of Forestry, Institute for Wood Research- 1996
Diploma – Chemistry
Technische Universität München
Faculty of Chemistry, Biology and Geosciences, Institute of Organic Chemistry
- Since 2021
Full Professor, Chair for Biogenic Polymers, Technische Universität München – Campus Straubing für Biotechnologie und Nachhaltigkeit
- 10/2011–09/2021
Associate Professor, Biogenic Polymers, Technische Universität München (TUM) and Straubing Science Centre for Renewable Resources
- 2015
Visiting Professor at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria
- 2010
Visiting Professor at the University of Rennes, France
- 08/2002–09/2011
Senior Researcher: Department of Materials Science and Engineering -III- Glass and Ceramics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Head of “Bioengineered Ceramics” Group
- 08/2000–07/2002
Post-Doc Position: Department of Materials Science and Engineering -III- Glass and Ceramics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
- 08/1996–07/2000
Scientific Co-Worker, Institute for Wood Research Technische Universität München (TUM)
Fellow of the International Academy of Wood Sciences (IAWS) since 2016
Deputy Director (Academic and Student affairs) of the Straubing Science Centre for Renewable Resources
Deputy Director of the Carl-von-Carlowitz-Centre for Sustainable Chemistry, Regensburg
Editor-in-Chief: Bioinspired, Biomimetic and Nanobiomaterials, ICE Publishing
Member of the Editorial Board: Materials Letters, Elsevier
Member of the Advisory Board: Cellulose Chemistry and Technology, Edit. Acad. Roman
Member of the Editorial Board: Results in Physics, Elsevier
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the “Projekthaus – NanoBioMater”, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Member of the Board “Wood K-Plus”, Linz, Austria
Plenary Lecture “Phosphor Safari 2016 Hong Kong” Hong Kong International Symposium on Luminescence, Spectroscopy and Applications 29 Nov – 2 Dec 2016
Plenary Lecture at the Humboldt Kolleg “Science and Society – the Use of Light” at the 3rd International Conference on Nanotechnologies and Biomedical Engineering will be held on September 23-26, 2015 in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova.
Biomacromolecules, Biogenic Polymers and Bioplastics
Bioinspired Materials Engineering
Bioinspired Functional Materials
Biotemplating
Ultrastructure Analysis of Biological and Hybrid Material Composites
Materials Processing involving Pyrolysis and High-Temperature Reactions
Society of German Chemists (GDCh) Technical Branch Solid State Chemistry and Materials Science of the GDC
Munich Society for Forest Sciences (MFG)
Gesellschaft der Freunde und Förderer der Holzforschung München (GFF)
Expert in Normative Committee ISOBIONIK of the DIN
