Guido Grundmeier

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Guido Grundmeier is a Full Professor (W3) and Chair of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry at Paderborn University. His research focuses on advanced materials and sustainable interfacial engineering, with expertise in surface and interface spectroscopy, plasma chemistry, and nanobiomaterials.

• Research Groups: Adhesion and Corrosion Science, Advanced Surface and Interface Spectroscopy, Nanobiomaterials
• Key Areas: Polymer/metal interfaces, nanostructured surfaces, DNA nanotechnology, antimicrobial therapies

His work combines in situ and operando techniques like ambient pressure XPS and FTIR spectroscopy to study molecular adhesion, interface electrochemistry, and plasma-based thin film deposition. Recent projects include INTRAPOL (2023-2025) for polymer-inorganic hybrid materials and the long-term SFB TR87 (2010-2022) on high-power plasma coatings.

Laboratory Facilities include the PIA-NAP system for combined XPS/IRRAS analysis under near-ambient conditions, atomic force microscopy, ellipsometry, and plasma deposition techniques like PE-CVD and HiPIMS sputtering. He contributes to Master's programs in Chemistry and Materials Science, supervising Bachelor's and Master's theses on topics like thin film growth and interface characterization.