Prof. Dr. Alexei R. Khokhlov

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsExperimental and Theoretical Physics of Polymers,Preparative and Physical Chemistry of Polymers,Theoretical Chemistry: Electron Structure, Dynamics, Simulation
Keywordsfunctional polymers, biomimetic polymers, design of polymer sequences, evolution of biopolymers

Current contact address

CountryRussian Federation
CityMoscow
InstitutionMoscow M.V. Lomonosov State University
InstituteDepartment of Physics

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Erhard Wolfgang FischerMax-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Mainz
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Martin MöllerInstitut für Organische Chemie III - Makromolekulare Chemie und Organische Materialien, Universität Ulm, Ulm
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang WitschelInstitut für Theoretische Chemie, Universität Ulm, Ulm
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/1993

Programme(s)

1992Humboldt Research Award Programme
2001Wolfgang Paul Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Alexei Removich Khokhlov has substantially promoted the development of novel biomimetic concepts in polymer science and thereby contributed to a quantitative understanding of structure formation and selforganization of macromolecules. The research he will conduct in Ulm on the sequence design of functional polymers regards one of the major challenges in modern soft matter sciences. This is the prediction and chemical realisation of copolymer sequences that lead to highly specified and intelligent molecular functions following the example of biomacromolecules like proteins DNA and RNA.