Christian C. M. Sproncken

Christian Sproncken studied Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), where he obtained his master’s degree in 2017 at the Laboratory of Physical Chemistry (SPC). His graduation work under supervision of Prof. Ilja Voets and Prof. Remco Tuinier focused on the formulation of complex coacervate core micelles containing poly(vinyl alcohol), which he showed inhibit ice recrystallization at millimolar concentration. During his three-month internship at Clariant in Frankfurt (DE), Christian performed a rheological investigation of additive influence on the drying time of waterborne dispersion paints. After completing this internship, he returned to Eindhoven in the fall of 2017 to join the group of Prof. Ilja Voets as a doctoral candidate in the Laboratory of Self-Organizing Soft Matter (SSM) and the Institute for Complex Molecular Systems (ICMS). The resultant dissertation, entitled Attractive Soft Matter: polyelectrolyte assembly for design of functional materials, was successfully defended in October 2021. Since December 2021, Christian works in the Biophysics group of Prof. Michael Mayer at the Adolphe Merkle Institute in Fribourg, Switzerland.