since 10/10: Full professor of Physical and Biophysical Chemistry at Bielefeld University
03/07 - 09/10: Professor of Physical and Colloid Chemistry at the University of Bayreuth
03/01 - 02/07: Scientific assistant at the TU Berlin in the Stranski laboratory (department of Prof. Dr. G. H. Findenegg)
04/05 - 02/06: Visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin (substitute for Prof. Baumgärtel)
05/98 - 02/01: Employment as a research assistant at the TU Chemnitz in the Institute for Physics, Department for Materials Research and Liquids (Prof. Dr. J.-B. Suck)

Postdoc

03/97 - 04/98: Employment as research assistant at the CRPP (group of Prof. Dr. D. Roux)
03/96 - 02/97: C.I.E.S. scholarship for the Ecole Normale Superieure Paris to carry out a research internship at the ”Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal / CRPP” (group of Prof. Dr. D. Langevin)

Academic career

02/10: Call to Bielefeld University for the Chair of Physical and Biophysical Chemistry (W3)
04/07: Call to Institute Laue-Langevin as ILL Fellow for Soft Condensed Matter (declined)
11/06: Call to the University of Bayreuth for a professorship in physical chemistry of colloids (W2)
01/05: Granting of the license to teach physical chemistry
06/04: Opening of the habilitation process. Title of the habilitation thesis: 'Smart Microgels: Intermediates Between Colloids And Functional Polymers'
01/92 - 11/95: PhD on the topic: Macromolecular systems in a different light
08/90 - 06/91: Diploma thesis in the research group of Prof. Dr. Th. Dorfmüller in Bielefeld: Dynamic light scattering from gelsolin and its fragments
06/90: Main diploma examination
10/84 - 06/91: Study of chemistry at Bielefeld University
06/84: Abitur (CJD Gymnasium in Versmold)

Miscellaneous

since 04/2024 Elected college member (Fachkollegiat) of DFG "College 3.16 Polymer Research"
since 04/24 Dean of the Chemistry Department at Bielefeld University
since 01/22 Member of the editorial board of "Colloid and Polymer Science"
since 11/21 Chief Specialty Editor of "Frontiers in Soft Matter"
06/2019 - 08/2019 Fellow of the Lund Institute for advanced Neutron and X-ray Science (LINXS)
since 2019 Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Polymers
2019 Appointment to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Maier-Leibnitz-Zentrum in Munich
2018 - 2020 Member of the Science Advisory Council of the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund
2017 - 2022 Member of the Scientific Council of the Institute Laue Langevin in Grenoble
since 05/2016 Member of PRP « Soft Matter : Bulk / Beamlines P03 and P62» at DESY/PETRA III
2016 member of the Editorial Advisory Board for ACS Omega
2011 - 2017 Elected member of the Committee for Research with Neutrons and deputy chairman
since 2010 Coordinator of the French-German chemistry course with Université de Paris Cité (formerly Paris 7)
10/09 - 09/10: Spokesman for the chemistry department at the University of Bayreuth
2009 - 2014 Member of the "Scientific Selection Panel" of the Helmholtz Center Berlin
2005 - 2008 Member of “Subcommittee 9” of the Institute Laue Langevin
2002 - 2007 Member of the “Comitee Scientifique” of the Laboratoire Leon Brillouin

Current research topics

Prof. Dr. Thomas Hellweg