PD Dr. Hajar Maleki - Curriculum Vitae
Education and Professional Career
2023 – present: Associated Junior Research Group Leader and Career Advancement Group Leader (CAP) – Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, (CMMC) Research Center/ Cologne/ Germany
05/2023: Habilitation (Venia legendi) in Inorganic Chemistry (Multifunctional Bio-inspired Silk-Ceramic based Hybrid Porous Materials: Rational Design and 3D Printing for Theragenerative Applications) Department of Chemistry, University of Cologne, GermanyMentor: Sanjay Mathur
2018 – present: Habilitand - Junior research group leader supported by German Aer-ospace Center (DLR) and German Science Foundation (DFG)
Department of Chemistry/ Institute of Inorganic Chemistry/ University of Cologne/ Cologne/ Germany
2016 – 2018: Postdoctoral Fellowship (principal investigator) - Austrian Science Fund (FWF) - Lise Meitner, Chemistry and Physics of Materials/ Materials Chemistry Division/Paris Lodron University Salzburg/ Salzburg/ Austria
2015 – 2016: Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Department of Chemical Engineering/ University of Coimbra/ Coimbra/ Portugal
12/2014: Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering – Nanomaterials: Magna Cum Laude, GPA: 18 from 20 (Development of Mechanically Reinforced Polymer-Silica Aerogel for Ther-mal Insulation in Space Applications), PI: Antonio Portugal, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
2012 – 2015: Marie Curie Research Fellow - Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Coimbra (UC)/ Coimbra/ Portugal
05/2011 – 09/2011: Visiting Scholar - Biocant - Biotechnology Innovation Center, University of Coimbra (UC)/ Cantanhede/ Portugal
2008 – 2011: Research assistant - Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (INST), Sharif University of Technology (SUT)/ Tehran/ Iran
09/2008: Master in Organic Chemistry, GPA: 17.45 from 20 (A comparative study of catalyzed rearrangement of allyloxy- coumarins and allyloxynaphthalenes to dihydrofurocoumarins and dihydronaphtho-furans), PI: M- Reza Saidi, Department of Chemistry, Sharif University of Technol-ogy, Tehran, Iran
06/2006: Bachelor in Chemistry, GPA: 16.02 from 20 (Energetic Polymers), PI: Mehdi
Shortlisted Professorship Positions and European Funding
W1 tt W3 Bio-inspired hybrid materials, 2nd candidate, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
ERC-StG 2023 SmartAerogel, European Research Council
ERC-CoG 2024 FlexiCeram, European Research Council
Awards, distinctions and professional activities
2023: Listed as top 2% most Influential Scientists globally, ranked by Stanford University and pub-lished at Elsevier: lnkd.in/ek4baUqs.
2023: 2023 Rising Star in Materials Science by American Chemical Society- ACS Materials Au
2022 – present: Member of the German Glass Society (DGG)
2022 – present: Member of Early Career Professionals Subcommittee of the Materials Research Society (MRS)
2021: Fellowship/ German Science Foundation (DFG – Eigene Stelle)/ Germany
2021: Grant/ Kopf Frei-Postdoc-Programme for Female Professors Programme IV/ University of Cologne
2021: Top downloaded article, Wiley, Advanced Materials Interfaces for article: doi.org/10.1002/admi.202001892
2020: Grant/ Kopf Frei-Postdoc-Programme for Female Professors Programme III/ University of Cologne
2020: Top downloaded article award, Wiley, Advanced Engineering Materials for article: https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202000033
2020 – present: Member of American Ceramic Society
2019 – present: Member of Cost Action Advanced Engineering and Research of (aero)Gels for Environment and Life Sciences (CA18125)
2019 – present: Member of Junior-Faculty-Club of the University of Cologne
2019 – present: Member of FREQ - Female Research Equality/ Germany
2019: Grant/ Chemical Industry funds (FCI) - Materials cost allowances for young professors/ Ger-many
2019: Grant/ Postdoc-Kids & ElderCare for the Female Professors Programme II/ University of Co-logne
2019: The 2018 most downloaded article award at the 25th Int. Congress on Glass (ICG), Boston/ USA
2018: Fellowship/ German Aerospace Center (DLR)/ Germany
2016: Fellowship/ Austrian Science Fund (FWF) - Lise Meitner fellowship/ Austria
2012: Fellowship/ Marie Curie Early-Stage Researcher/ Portugal