Assistant Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Florian Glöcklhofer

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Florian Glöcklhofer is head of the Laboratory for Functional Aromatic Molecules in the Organic and Biological Chemistry Research Division at the Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry. 

After completing his bachelor's and master's degrees in Technical Chemistry, Florian Glöcklhofer obtained his PhD from TU Wien in 2017 with a thesis entitled “Development of a New Reaction Paving the Way for Cyanated Functional Materials”. After completing his PhD, he initially joined Imperial College London as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow and later as an Erwin Schrödinger Fellow, where he focused on the development of conjugated macrocycles for semiconductor applications and organic battery electrodes. In 2023, Florian Glöcklhofer returned to TU Wien, where he was appointed Assistant Professor in 2024 and received a prestigious ERC Starting Grant in the same year.

In his current research, Florian Glöcklhofer is working on the design and synthesis of conjugated, semiconducting polymers and functional aromatic and macrocyclic molecules, with a particular focus on the fundamental investigation of aromaticity and antiaromaticity in these complex molecular systems.