- Since August 2022: PhD Candidate, Prof. Dr. N. Vogel, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 2016-2022: Bachelor and Master student, Nanotechnology, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 2021-2022: Master thesis on „Improvement of polycrystalline perovskite X-ray detectors“, Siemens Healthineers AG and Prof. Dr. W. Heiß
- 2020-2022: Research Assistant in the group of Prof. Dr. N. Vogel
- 2019: Bachelor thesis on „Complex Self-Assembly of Core-Shell particles“, Prof. Dr. N. Vogel
- 2019: Internship at ARA-Coatings GmbH Erlangen, Topic: PVD-Coatings
- 2018: Internship at the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India
Topic: Perovskites as charge storage capacitors
Hobbies:
painting pictures, Kung Fu, cooking, hiking, reading
Selected Publications:
A full list can be found here.
- Cui, R., Ickler, M., Menath, J., Vogel, N., & Klinger, D. (2025). Nanogels with tailored hydrophobicity and their behavior at air/water interfaces. Soft Matter, 21, 100-112. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4sm01186d
- Cui, R., Ickler, M., Markovina, A., Kanwal, S., Vogel, N., & Klinger, D. (2024). Amphiphilic Nanogels as Versatile Stabilizers for Pickering Emulsions. ACS nano, 18(37), 25499 - 25511. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.4c05143
- Ickler, M., Menath, J., Holstein, L., Rey, M., Buzza, D.M.A., & Vogel, N. (2022). Interfacial self-assembly of SiO2-PNIPAM core-shell particles with varied crosslinking density. Soft Matter. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2sm00644h
- Rey, M., Walter, J., Harrer, J., Perez, C.M., Chiera, S., Nair, S.,... Vogel, N. (2022). Versatile strategy for homogeneous drying patterns of dispersed particles. Nature Communications, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30497-z
- Kolker, J., Harrer, J., Ciarella, S., Rey, M., Ickler, M., Janssen, L.M.,... Löwen, H. (2021). Interface-induced hysteretic volume phase transition of microgels: simulation and experiment. Soft Matter. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1sm00111f