Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Tanja Junkers graduated with a PhD degree in physical chemistry from Goettigen University in Germany in 2006, having worked on the determination of kinetic rate coefficients for radical reactions during polymerizations. In the two years that followed, she was research associate at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, shifting her focus more and more towards synthetic polymer chemistry. Between 2008 and beginning of 2010 she was a senior research scientist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany in the group of Prof. Christopher Barner-Kowollik. Early 2010 she was then appointed professor at Hasselt University in Belgium, where she founded the Polymer Reaction Design group. January 2018 she joined Monash University as full professor, focusing on her work on continuous flow polymerizations, (nano)particle formation and design of complex precision polymers. For the time being, she keeps a guest professor role at Hasselt University until her last PhD students there will have graduated.
Education/Academic qualification
Physical Chemistry, PhD, Georg August Universitat Gottingen (Georg August University of Gottingen)
Award Date: 26 May 2006
Chemistry, Diplom (eq. Master in Science), Georg August Universitat Gottingen (Georg August University of Gottingen)
Award Date: 1 Jul 2002
External positions
Associate Editor Polymer Chemistry, Royal Society of Chemistry
1 May 2018 → …Guest professor, Universiteit Hasselt (Hasselt University)
15 Jan 2018 → …Research area keywords
- Controlled/living Radical Polymerizations
- Flow Chemistry
- Self-assembly
- peptidomimetics
- Machine Learning
- Polymer Characterization
- kinetic modelling
Network
Projects
- 2 Active
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ARC Training Centre for Green Chemistry in Manufacturing
Patti, A., Junkers, T., Raston, C. L., Barrow, C. J., Hapgood, K., Gates, W. P., Adcock, J. L., Sutti, A., Rajkhowa, R., Saito, K., Tabor, R., Hearn, M., Tanksale, A., Garnier, G., Franco, C., Tang, Y., Zhang, W., Heimann, K., Crawford, S., Height, M., Cock, B., Warner, J. C., Buckingham, E., King, B., Jayaratne, V., Scott, J., Bury, P., Chan, P. W. H., Robinson, A., Semple, J., Smullen, R., Ciampi, S., Sun, G., Chong, J., Miltenoff, J., Moreno , C., Innes, L., Aldrich, C., Lovelady, C. & James, I.
Bioworks Australia Pty Ltd (trading as Bioworks Australia), Australian Research Council (ARC), Beyond Benign
15/12/20 → 14/12/24
Project: Research
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High-Precision Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Semiconducting Block Copolymers
Junkers, T., Haven, J., Buckinx, A., Michels, J. & Ribeiro, A.
Monash University – Internal University Contribution
1/01/19 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
Research output
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Muconic acid isomers as platform chemicals and monomers in the biobased economy
Khalil, I., Quintens, G., Junkers, T. & Dusselier, M., 7 Mar 2020, In : Green Chemistry. 22, 5, p. 1517-1541 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
13 Citations (Scopus) -
Tailoring Polymer Dispersity by RAFT Polymerization: A Versatile Approach
Whitfield, R., Parkatzidis, K., Truong, N. P., Junkers, T. & Anastasaki, A., 11 Jun 2020, In : Chem. 6, 6, p. 1340-1352 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile17 Citations (Scopus) -
Alcohol-based PISA in batch and flow: Exploring the role of photoinitiators
Zaquen, N., Azizi, W. A. A. W., Yeow, J., Kuchel, R. P., Junkers, T., Zetterlund, P. B. & Boyer, C., 21 May 2019, In : Polymer Chemistry. 10, 19, p. 2406-2414 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
23 Citations (Scopus) -
A predictive framework for mixing low dispersity polymer samples to design custom molecular weight distributions
Rubens, M. & Junkers, T., 14 Nov 2019, In : Polymer Chemistry. 10, 42, p. 5721-5725 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
13 Citations (Scopus) -
Automated Polymer Synthesis Platform for Integrated Conversion Targeting Based on Inline Benchtop NMR
Rubens, M., Van Herck, J. & Junkers, T., 19 Nov 2019, In : ACS Macro Letters. 8, 11, p. 1437-1441 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
12 Citations (Scopus)