since 03/2022	Professor for Physical Chemistry and Renewable Energies at the Westsächsischen Hochschule Zwickau (West Saxon University of Applied Sciences in Zwickau)
04/2018 – 02/2022	Project Manager New Business Development (R&D) at the Zschimmer & Schwarz Mohsdorf GmbH & Co. KG
04/2019 – 03/2020	Lectureships  at  the  Institute  for  Chemistry  at  the  Technische Universität Chemnitz
04/2017 – 03/2018	Postdoctoral-Research-Fellow at the University of Alberta in Edmonton / Kanada
10/2016 – 03/2017	Research associate at the Institute for Chemistry at the Technische Universität Chemnitz
10/2011 – 06/2016	PhD student at the Technische Universität Chemnitz at the Chair of Coordination Chemistry (Prof. Dr. M. Mehring) Doctoral thesis: „Experimental and theoretical studies on germanium- containing precursors for twin polymerization“ (grade: summa cum laude)
10/2006 – 09/2011	Studies in chemistry at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz and at the Technische Universität Chemnitz

•    Leopoldina postdoc grant from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

     (Postdoc grant: 04/2017 – 03/2018)

•    Doctoral scholarship from the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (Doctoral scholarship: 03/2012 –    02/2014)

•    University  prize  of  the faculty for  natural  sciences  of  the  Technische Universität Chemnitz for the diploma thesis with the title „Theoretische und experimentelle Untersuchungen zur Zwillingspolymerisation an neuen Monomeren auf der Basis vierwertiger Metallalkoxide“ (08.10.2012)

Lectures in German and English with a focus on:

 •   Physical chemistry

 •   General Chemistry

 •   Analytical Chemistry

 •   Renewable Energies and Storage Technologies

•    Environmental Sciences and Technologies

•       NMR Spectroscopy (SPINSOLVE 80 ULTRA Multi-X from Magritek for analyzing 7Li,

13C, 23Na, 29Si and 31P)

•    FTIR-Spectroscopy (FTIR Spectrometer IR-Spirit T with ATR-device from Shimadzu)

•    Thermal Analyses (Dynamic Differential Calorimetry DSC 25 from Mettler Toledo)

•    UV/Vis Spectroscopy (UV/Vis Spectrometer Evolution 300 from Thermo Scientific)

•    Atomic layer deposition (Atomic Layer Deposition ALD 150 from FHR Anlagenbau)

 

We are happy to make our analytical competencies available for analysis and/or research assignments. Just contact us.

 

 

• B.Eng. Adam Fritsch (Laboratoy engineer)
• M.Sc. Aylin Last (research assistant/project: FungiMat)

• FungiMat  (ESF  Plus  Project)  -   Interdisciplinary junior research group for the study of ecological  composite  materials  from  fungal  mycelia  and  biopolymers  and  their implications

   →   Subproject 4: Surface functionalization for the stable and reversibly switchable connection and separation of the components fo composite materials

                      

•    Elected member of the LIAN board (deputy head of institute)

 •   Program director of the bachelor's degree program Green Engineering and Sustainable

Management (GreEnSuM)

 •   Preparation of expert reports for the DFG and the DAAD

 •   Juror for the IQ Innovationspreis Mitteldeutschland in the Chemistry/Plasitcs Cluster

 •  German Chemical Society (GDCh)

 •   Association for the Promotion of the Utilization of Renewable Energies (VEE Sachsen e.V.)

 

 

 

 

•      P. Kitschke, Dissertationsschrift: Experimental and theoretical studies on germanium-containing precursors for twin polymerization, Technische Universität Chemnitz (Chemnitz), 2016. (URL:  http://nbn- resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-qucosa-205443)

•      Co-author of the scientific book Twin Polymerization: New Strategy for Hybrid Materials Synthesis der DFG Forschergruppe FOR 1497

„Organisch-Anorganische Nanokomposite durch Zwillingspolymerisation“ (first author of the chapters Structure – Reactivity Relationships of the precursors for Twin Polymerization and Inorganic Oxides from Twin Polymerization), ISBN-10: 3110500671

 

Peer-reviewed Journals

 

1.    P. Kitschke, A.-M. Preda, S. Scholz, A. A. Auer, T. Rüffer, H. Lang and M. Mehring: Spirocyclic tin salicyl alcoholates – A combined experimental and theoretical study on their structures and 119Sn NMR chemical shifts and reactivity in thermally induced Twin Polymeriza- tion, Dalton Trans. 2019, 48, 220-230.

2.    A.-M. Preda, M. Krasowska, L. Wrobel, P. Kitschke, P. C. Andrews, J. G. MacLellan, L. Mertens, M. Korb, T. Rüffer, H. Lang, A. A. Auer, M. Mehring: Evaluation of dispersion type metal···π arene interaction in arylbismuth compounds – an experimental and theoretical study, Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 2125–2145.

3.    A. A. Auer, G. Bistoni, W. B. Schneider, P. Kitschke, M. Mehring, T.

Ebert and S. Spange: Electronic structure calculations on the thermal initiation of the twin polymerization process, ChemPlusChem 2017, 82 (12), 1396-1407.

4.    M. Weber, P. Kitschke and M. Mehring: Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Bismuth(III) Oxides Containing Sulfur and Selenium, Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. 2016, 642, 18, 1046. (conference contribution letter)

5.    P. Kitschke, T. Rüffer, H. Lang, A. A. Auer and M. Mehring: Chiral Spirocyclic Germanium Thiolates – An Evaluation of Their Suitability for Twin Polymerization based on A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study, ChemistrySelect 2016, 1, 1184-1191.

6.    P. Kitschke, M. Walter, H. Lang, A. A. Auer, M. V. Kovalenko and M.

Mehring: From molecular germanates to microporous Ge@C via twin polymerization, Dalton Trans. 2016, 45, 5741-5751.

 

7.    A.-M. Preda, P. Kitschke, T. Rüffer, H. Lang and M. Mehring: Synthesis and Characterization of the Germanium Sulfonate Ge(CH3SO3)2 - a 3D Coordination Network Solid, Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. 2016, DOI: 10.1002/zaac.201600023

8.    P. Kitschke, M. Walter, T. Rüffer, A. Seifert, F. Speck, T. Seyller, S.

Spange, H. Lang, A. A. Auer, M. V. Kovalenko and M. Mehring:

Porous Ge@C materials via twin polymerization of germanium(II)

salicyl alcoholates for Li-Ion batteries, J. Mater. Chem. A 2016, 4, 2705-2719.

9.    P. Kitschke, T. Rüffer, M. Korb, H. Lang, W. B. Schneider, A. A. Auer and M. Mehring: Intramolecular C–O Insertion of a Germanium(II) Salicyl Alcoholate: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2015, 33, 5467-5479.

10. P. Kitschke, L. Mertens, T. Rüffer, H. Lang, A. A. Auer and M.

Mehring: From a germylene to a novel inorganic „adamantane“:

[{Ge4(µ-O)2(µ-OH)4}{W(CO)5}]·4THF, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2015, 30, 4996-5002.

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11. A.-M. Preda, P. Kitschke, T. Rüffer, H. Lang and M. Mehring:

Characterization of Ge(CH3SO3)2, Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. 2014, 640, 2367. (conference contribution letter)

12. P. Kitschke, A. A. Auer, T. Löschner, A. Seifert, S. Spange, T.

Rüffer, H. Lang and M. Mehring: Microporous Carbon and Mesoporous Silica by use of Twin Polymerization - An integrated Experimental and Theoretical Approach on Precursor Reactivity, ChemPlusChem 2014, 7, 1009-1023.

13. P. Kitschke, A. A. Auer, A. Seifert, T. Rüffer, H. Lang and M.

Mehring: Synthesis, Characterization and Twin Polymerisation of a

Novel Dioxagermine, Inorg. Chim. Acta 2014, 409, 472-478.

14. P. Kitschke, S. Schulze, M. Hietschold and M. Mehring: Synthesis of

Germanium Dioxide Nanoparticles in Benzyl Alcohols - a

Comparison, Main Group Met. Chem. 2013, 36, 209-214.