Schubert Group

  • Full Screen
  • Wide Screen
  • Narrow Screen
  • Increase font size
  • Default font size
  • Decrease font size
You are here: Home

Welcome to the Schubert group website

The Laboratory of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry (IOMC, Lehrstuhl II/Schubert) is part of the Jena Center for Soft Matter (JCSM) and the Faculty School of Chemistry and Earth Sciences of the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena ,Germany. Click here for the group flyer.

The laboratory covers a range of research fields between organic synthesis, macromolecular chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, combinatorial material research as well as nanoscience. Most of this research is carried out within the framework of the Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI). The Laboratory has strong cooperations with the Center for Nanoscience Munich, the University Louvain-La-Neuve and the University of Gent. Significant support is obtained from the DFG, BMBF, State of Thuringia, EU, DPI, NWO, Evonikand the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie.
The laboratory coordinates the DFG priority programme SPP 1568 “Design and generic principles of self-healing materials”. Within the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, the laboratory coordinates the priority research area “Innovative Materials and Technologies” and the ProExcellence programmes ‘NanoConSens’ and ‘PhotoMic’; in addition, the laboratory actively participates in the BMBF "Spitzenforschung und Innovation in den Neuen Ländern" programme "Photonics in Nanomaterials" (PhoNa), the Abbe School of Photonics and the Abbe Center of Photonics (ACP).

Currently about 70 members from 8 nations form the vibrant basis of an active research environment, which was documented in 67 refereed scientific publications in 2012; more than 3100 citations last year demonstrate the worldwide impact of the research performed in the laboratory.

The mission of the laboratory is to combine bottom-up and top-down approaches to functional materials from the nanoscopic to the mesoscopic length scale, combined with addressable (smart) features such as self-healing systems and responsive properties. Applications both in the field of photonics/optics as well as life science are currently targeted, in close cooperation with local partners in Jena as well as abroad.

Newsflash

Prof. Schubert listed in the Chemistry World top h-index ranking of living chemists

The list is published by Chemistry World, a chemistry news forum from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC); it is being composed by Prof. Henry Schaefer and Amy Peterson of the University of Georgia, USA. The authors investigate the h-index of the leading chemists and collect a list of living chemists with an h-index greater than 50; the list is updated every half year. For the first time, Prof. Dr. Ulrich S. Schubert, chair for organic and macromolecular chemistry at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany, is now a member of this illustrious collection of at present 587 living chemists. pdf.

The h-index was devised in 2005 by Jorge Hirsch as an indicator for the impact of scientific research. Following his definition, the h-index of a scientist is the highest number of scientific papers he has published, which have each amassed at least the same number of citations. E.g., Ulrich S. Schubert, with currently an h-index of 64, has published 64 papers which have each received at minimum 64 citations and in 2012 67 publications with more than 3100 citations. Typically, the h-index reflects the live-long achievements of the whole career of scientists. Those scientists with h-index numbers greater 80 show a high percentage of noble laureates (as indicated in the ranking in Chemistry Word).