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Dr. Alexander Southan is a Senior Research Scientist in the CSF Materials department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems since 2023. His research focuses on functional bio-based or synthetic hydrogels and polymers, addressing applications in sensors, drug delivery, and biomaterials. Previously, he led the 'Chemical and Physical Interfaces' group at the University of Stuttgart and was a team leader in the NanoBioMater interdisciplinary initiative, bridging chemistry, materials science, biology, and engineering. He holds a PhD in polymer chemistry from the University of Stuttgart (2014) and a diploma from Philipps-University of Marburg and Bangor University, specializing in macromolecular chemistry and advanced spectroscopic techniques like CARS.
Research interests include polymer synthesis, cross-linking chemistry, hydrogel formulation, and their applications in environmental sensing, drug delivery systems, and biomedical engineering. Notable contributions include developing hydrogels for enzyme immobilization using viral scaffolds and optimizing material properties via design-of-experiments approaches.
His work on 3D bioprinting standardization has advanced reproducibility in tissue engineering. He has also contributed to material science through software tools like pyPreprocessing for spectral data analysis and pyProtein for biopolymer calculations.
