Thomas Heinze
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Title
Polysaccharides – basis for green products
Bio
Thomas Heinze is a leading figure in polysaccharide chemistry and is professor of organic chemistry at the Institute of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena in Germany. He has been in Leuven before as he spent a year as a postdoctoral researcher in polymer chemistry at KU Leuven during 1994-1995. He currently serves as a scientific advisor to both the Thuringian Institute of Textile and Plastics Research in Rudolstadt and the Robert Boyle Institute in Jena, Germany. In addition, he is a co‑founder of Posnaova GmbH and step2future GmbH.
In recognition of his contributions, Heinze has received numerous awards, including the Anselme Payen Award of the American Chemical Society (2010), Dr. Edmund Thiele Denkmünze of the Zellcheming Association (2012), and the Thuringian Research Award in 2014 for “Ultrasensitive immuno-assays for emergency medicine based on nanostructured polymer membranes”.
Up to now, he published more than 570 scientific papers and holds 36 patents in the field of polysaccharide chemistry. He is also leading author of 3 books Cellulose derivatives: Synthesis, Structure, and Properties (Springer, 2018), Esterification of Polysaccharides (Springer 2006), and Comprehensive Cellulose Chemistry (Wiley-VCH 1998).
