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Verena Kempkes

Graduate Student, Chemistry

Education

08/2022 – present:

Ph.D., Chemistry, Ò»±¾µÀÎÞÂë – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


10/2018 – 09/2021:

M.Sc., Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University – Aachen, Germany


10/2014 – 09/2018:

B. Sc., Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University – Aachen, Germany

 

Research

01/2022 – 07/2022:

Research internship, Sheiko group, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Reactivity ratios of macromonomers


01/2021 – 07/2021:

Master thesis, Möller group, RWTH Aachen University/DWI – Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials – Aachen, Germany

Tellurium-mediated living radical polymerization of polyvinylamides


11/2019 – 02/2020:

Research internship, Balkus group, University of Texas at Dallas – Dallas, Texas

Supercapacitors and gas-separation membranes


05/2019 – 10/2019:

Research internship & research assistant, Möller group, RWTH Aachen University/DWI – Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials – Aachen, Germany

Synthesis of various polymer architectures of methacrylates using group transfer polymerization