Michael J. Bojdys

e-mail: m.bojdys@mana.energy

tel (DE): +4930209366418

Career History

Aug 2024 – presentProject Director, DATI – BioBlock, Berlin, Germany.
Aug 2024 – presentCTO, MANA.energy (CSMB Start-Up Team), Berlin, Germany.
Nov 2020 – presentGuest Professor in Organic Materials Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Chemistry, Berlin, Germany.
Apr 2023 – Jul 2024Innovation Consultant/Project Manager, EurA AG, Berlin, Germany.
Jul 2020 – Feb 2023Reader in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, King’s College London, London, UK.
Apr 2018 – presentJunior Group Leader, Integrative Research Institute for the Sciences (IRIS) Adlershof, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Apr 2018 – Nov 2020Associate Professor (Habilitand, Gruppenleiter mit Lehr- und Prüfungsbefugnis), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Chemistry, Berlin, Germany.
Jul 2016 – Jul 2018Junior Group Leader, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry ASCR, v.v.i., Prague, Czech Republic.
Jul 2014 – Apr 2018Assistant Professor (tenure track), Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science, Prague, Czech Republic.
Sep 2013 – Jun 2014DAAD research fellow, Technische Universität Berlin, Department of Chemistry, Berlin, Germany.
Apr 2010 – Sep 2013Postdoctoral researcher, University of Liverpool, Department of Chemistry, Liverpool, United Kingdom with Prof Andrew Cooper (U Liverpool).
Jan 2009 – Mar 2010Postdoctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam-Golm, Germany with Prof. Dr. Markus Antonietti (MPI-KGF) and Prof. Dr. Arne Thomas (TU Berlin).
Jun 2006 – Aug 2006Research assistant, University of Cambridge, BP Institute for Multiphase Flow, Cambridge, United Kingdom with Dr Stuart Clarke (U Cambridge).

Education

Jul 2009Master of Arts (Cantab), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Oct 2006 – Jan 2009Doctor rerum naturalium (Dr. rer. Nat.) thesis, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces,
Potsdam-Golm, Germany. Dissertation: “On new allotropes and nanostructures of carbon nitrides” with Prof. Dr. Markus Antonietti (MPI-KGF). [Download]
Oct 2005 – Jul 2006Master of Natural Science (Cantab), University of Cambridge,
Cambridge, United Kingdom. Title: “Phase behaviour of binary mixtures of undecylamine and undecanoic acid in the bulk and in their monolayer on graphite” with Dr Stuart Clarke (U Cambridge).
Oct 2002 – Jul 2005Bachelor of Arts (Cantab), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
1992 – 2001Abitur, Ravensberger Gymnasium Herford, Herford, Germany.
LanguagesPolish, German, English, French.

Academic Honours and Awards

2018 – 2020Member of the Advisory Board of the Young Scientists at the World Economic Forum (WEF).
2013 – 2014Stipend of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
2002 – 2006Scholarship of the Cambridge European Trust.