Publications:

Vera A. Schulte, Mar Diez, Martin Möller, Marga C. Lensen* “Topography induced cell adhesion to Acr-sP(EO-stat-PO) hydrogels: the role of protein adsorption” Macromolecular Bioscience 2011 in press

Mar Diez, Vera A. Schulte, Filippo Stefanoni, Carlo F. Natale, Francesco Mollica, Claudia M. Cesa, Jingyu Chen, Martin Möller, Paolo A. Netti, Maurizio Ventre and Marga C. Lensen*“Molding Micropatterns of Elasticity on PEG-based Hydrogels to Control Cell Adhesion and Migration” Advanced Engineering Materials (Advanced Biomaterials) 2011, 13 (4): n/a. doi: 10.1002/adem.201080122, in press.

V. A. Schulte, M. Diez, M. Möller and M. C. Lensen* “The combined influence of substrate stiffness and surface topography on the anti-adhesive properties of Acr-sP(EO-stat-PO) hydrogels” Biomacromolecules, 2010, 11 (12): 3375–3383.

V. A. Schulte, Y. Hu, M. Diez, D. Bünger, M. Möller and M. C. Lensen* “A hydrophobic perfluorinated polyether elastomer as a patternable biomaterial for cell culture and tissue engineering” Biomaterials 2010, 31 (33): 8583 – 8595.


M. Bartneck*, V. A. Schulte, N. Paul, M. Diez, M. C. Lensen and G. Zwadlo-Klarwasser “Induction of specific macrophage subtypes by defined micropatterned structures” Acta Biomaterialia 2010, 6 (10): 3864-3872.


S. Gilles, M. Diez, A. Offenhäusser, M. C. Lensen and D. Mayer* “Deformation of nanostructures on polymer stamps during soft UV nanoimprint lithography” Nanotechnology 2010, 21: 245307-13.


J. Chen, P. Mela, M. Möller and M. C. Lensen* “Micro-contact deprinting: a technique to pattern gold nanoparticles” ACS Nano 2009 3 (6): 1451-1456.


M. Diez, P. Mela, V. Seshan, M. Möller and M. C. Lensen* “Nanomolding of PEG-based hydrogels with sub-10 nm resolution” Small 2009, 5 (23): 2756-2760.


R. Tsekov* and M. C. Lensen “Brownian motion and temperament of living cells” arXiv 2009, 0910.0927v2.


V. A. Schulte, M. Díez, M. Möller and M. C. Lensen* “Surface Topography induces Fibroblast Adhesion on intrinsically non-adhesive Poly(ethylene Glycol) Substrates” Biomacromolecules 2009, 10 (10): 2795-2801.


M. Bartneck, V. Schulte, N. Paul, M. Lensen and G. Zwadlo-Klarwasser. “Topographical control of human primary macrophages by different perfluoropolyether (PFPE) microstructures.” Biomaterialien 2009, 10, Heft 3/ 4: 136.


Marga C. Lensen,* Vera A. Schulte, Jochen Salber, Mar Diez, Fabian R. Menges, Martin Möller: „Cellular responses to novel, micro-patterned biomaterials” Pure Appl. Chem., 2008, 80 (11): 2479–2487.


Marga C. Lensen,* Vera A. Schulte, Mar Díez, Petra Mela and Martin Möller: “Micro- and f-patterned Surfaces for Specific Biointeraction” PMSE Preprint 2008, 99: 86.


Marga C. Lensen,* Mar Díez, Vera A. Schulte, Petra Mela, and Martin Möller: “Nano- and micro-patterned biomaterials” J. Fudan Univ. – Natural Science 2007, 46: 706.


Marga C. Lensen,* Petra Mela, Ahmed Mourran, Juergen Groll, Jean Heuts, Haitao Rong, Martin Möller: “Micro- and Nanopatterned Star Poly(Ethylene Glycol) (PEG) Materials Prepared by UV-Based Imprint Lithography”, Langmuir 2007, 23(14):7841-7846.


Marga C. Lensen, Johannes (Hans) A. A. W. Elemans, Sandra J. T. Van Dingenen, Jan W. Gerritsen, Sylvia Speller, Alan E. Rowan and Roeland J. M. Nolte: “Giant Porphyrin Disks: Control of Their Self-Assembly at Liquid-Solid Interfaces through Metal-Ligand Interactions”Chem.-Eur.J. 2007, 13: 7948 - 7956.


Marga C. Lensen, Martin Möller. “Method for preparation of surface-structured bulk hydrogels for bioapplications” European Patent EP 06 011 868.4 2006.


Marga C. Lensen, Martin C. Feiters, Roeland J. M. Nolte, and Alan E. Rowan: “Supramolecular aggregates of porphyrin oligomers connected by DABCO.” Exp. rep. 2004, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 2005: 280-281.


Marga C. Lensen, Johannes (Hans) A. A. W. Elemans, Alan E. Rowan, and Roeland J. M. Nolte: “Self-assembled catalytic porphyrin architectures.” J. Porphyrins Phthalocyanines 2004, 8: 745.


Marga C. Lensen, Ken Takazawa, Johannes (Hans) A. A. W. Elemans, Cecile R. L. P. N. Jeukens, Peter C. M. Christianen, Jan-Cees Maan, Alan E. Rowan, and Roeland J. M. Nolte. “Aided self-assembly of porphyrin nanoaggregates into ring-shaped architectures.” Chem.-Eur. J. 2004, 10: 831-839.


Cecile R. L. P. N. Jeukens, Marga C. Lensen, Frans J. P. Wijnen, Johannes (Hans) A. A. W. Elemans, Peter C. M. Christianen, Alan E. Rowan, Jan W. Gerritsen, Roeland J. M. Nolte, and Jan-Cees Maan: “Polarized absorption and emission of ordered self-assembled porphyrin rings.” Nano Lett. 2004, 4: 1401-1406.


Marga C. Lensen, Sandra. J. T. Van Dingenen, Johannes (Hans) A. A. W. Elemans, Harm P. Dijkstra, Gerard P. M. van Klink, Gerard van Koten, Jan W. Gerritsen, Sylvia Speller, Roeland J. M. Nolte, and Alan E. Rowan: “Synthesis and self-assembly of giant porphyrin discs.” Chem. Commun. 2004: 762-763.


Johannes (Hans) A. A. W. Elemans, Marga C. Lensen, Jan W. Gerritsen, Herman van Kempen, Sylvia Speller, Roeland J. M. Nolte, and Alan E. Rowan: “Scanning probe studies of porphyrin assemblies and their supramolecular manipulation at a solid-liquid interface.” Adv. Mater. 2003, 15: 2070-2073.


Johannes (Hans) A. A. W. Elemans, Marga C. Lensen, Sandra J. T. Van Dingenen, Jan W. Gerritsen, Herman Van Kempen, Roeland J. M. Nolte, Alan E. Rowan, and Sylvia Speller: “STM studies on nanosized porphyrin wheels at the solid-liquid interface.” AIP Conference Proceedings, 2003, Vol. 696: 508-512.


Marga C. Lensen, Mariangela Castriciano, Ruud G. E. Coumans, Jantien Foekema, Alan E. Rowan, Luigi M. Scolaro, and Roeland J. M. Nolte: “Hexakis (pyridyl-functionalised porphyrinato)benzene as a building block for the construction of multi-chromophoric arrays.” Tetrahedron Lett. 2002, 43: 9351-9355.



- University of Düsseldorf, Organic Chemistry (2006); Prof. Ritter

- Center of NanoTechnology (CeNTech) ünster (2006); Prof. Fuchs

- Aachen Polymer Chain (APC) Talks (2007); DWI / RWTH Aachen; Prof. M öller

- 17th International Symposium FCFP-XVII (2007); Shanghai, China; Prof. Wu

- Forschungszentrum Juelich, IBN2 (2007); Prof. Offenhäusser

- Institute of Physical Chemistry (IPC) (2007); RWTH Aachen; Prof Richtering

- Colloquium of Unifying Concepts in Catalysis (UniCat), Technical University Berlin (2008); Prof. Hildebrandt

- Max Planck Institute für Metallforschung, Stuttgart (2008); Dr. Kemkemer

- Colloquium of Unifying Concepts in Catalysis (UniCat), Technical University Berlin (2008); Prof. Hildebrandt

- Max Planck Institute für Metallforschung, Stuttgart (2008); Dr. Kemkemer

- Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden (2008); Prof. Gold

- Technical University Delft, DelftChemTech, The Netherlands (2008); Prof. Sudhölter

- Forschungszentrum Juelich, IBN2 (2009); Dr. Mayer

- ESF-EMBO Conference "Biological Surfaces and Interfaces", Spain (2009); Prof. Spatz and Prof. Gold

- University of Naples "Federico II", Dept. of Materials and Production Engineering, Italy (2009); Prof. Netti

- University College Dublin (UCD), Conway Institute, Ireland (2009); Prof. Lee

- Bielefeld Institute for Biophysics and Nanoscience (2010); Dr. Turchanin

- Freie Universität Berlin (2010); Prof. Haag

- TU Berlin, Institut of Physics (2011); Prof. Stark

- Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam (2011) Dr. John Dunlop / Prof. Peter Fratzl




At 17th International Symposium on Fine Chemistry and Functional Polymers (FCFP-XVII) & IUPAC 3rd International Symposium on Novel Materials and Synthesis (NMS-II1), Shanghai, China (2007):

M. C. Lensen*, M. Diez, V. A. Schulte, P. Mela, M. Möller " Nano- and micro-patterned biomaterials" invited by symposium organiser Prof. Wu (Fudan University)


At Gordon Research Conference "Signaling by Adhesion Receptors", South Hadley, MA, USA (2008):

V.A. Schulte, M. Diez, M. öller and M.C. Lensen "Surface Topography induces Fibroblast Adhesion and Spreading on two intrinsically non-fouling Biomaterials"


At World Biomaterials Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2008):

M. C. Lensen, V. A. Schulte, M. Diez, P. Mela, M. Möller "Cellular responses to novel nano- and micro-patterned biomaterials"


At ACS (American Chemical Society) Meeting, section PMSE (Polymer Materials, Science and Engineering), Philadelphia, USA (2008):

M. C. Lensen, V. A. Schulte, M. Diez, P. Mela, M. Moeller "Micro- and nano-patterned surfaces for specific biointeraction"


At Gordon Research Conference on "Fibronectin, Integrins & Related Molecules", Ventura, CA, USA (2009):

V.A. Schulte, M. Diez, M. Bartneck, G. Zwadlo-Klarwasser, M. Möller and M.C. Lensen "Cellular Reactions to patterned biointerfaces: Influence of surface wettability and um-patterns"


At ESF-EMBO Symposium on "Biological Surfaces and Interfaces", Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain (2009):

M. Diez, J. Chen, P. Mela, V. A. Schulte, C. M. Cesa, F. Stefanoni, M. Ventre, F. Mollica, P. A. Netti, M. Möller and M. C. Lensen* "Cellular behavior on micro- and nanopatterned hydrogels" Invited by symposium organisers Prof. Gold and Prof. Spatz


At 23nd Annual Meeting of the European Macrophage and Dendritic Cell Society, Regensburg, Germany (2009):

M. Bartneck, V. Schulte, M. Lensen and G. Zwadlo-Klarwasser "Effects of different microstructured PFPE surface structures on macrophage phenotype and cytokine production"


At 97th Meeting of the American Association of Immunologists, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (2010):

M. Bartneck*, H. A. Keul, V. Schulte, M. Lensen, J. Groll and G. Zwadlo-Klarwasser. "Control of the inflammatory response of primary human macrophages by microstructures and surface chemistry" Invited oral presentation (one hour) by BenderMedsystems


J. Chen, M. Diez, V.A. Schulte, F. Stefanoni, M. Ventre, F. Mollica, P. Netti and M.C. Lensen* "*„ Cell adhesion and migration on patterned hydrogels" Invited to submit the lecture as a manuscript for Advanced Engineering Materials (Advanced Biomaterials)


J. Chen, M. Diez, V. A. Schulte, and M. C. Lensen* "*„ Patterned hydrogels to manipulate cell adhesion and migration" Invited by the organiser Prof. Thomas
Invited to submit the lecture as a chapter for the book ‘Advances in Natural Polymers, Biopolymers, Biomaterials, and Their Composites, Blends and IPNs’


V. A. Schulte, M. Diez, J. Chen, and M. C. Lensen* "*„ Physically and mechanically patterned hydrogels to manipulate cell adhesion and migration" Invited by the organisers Prof. Maynard and Prof. Harth


M. C. Lensen* "*„ Cells’ responses to micro- and nano-patterned BIOINTERFACES" Plenary lecture; invited by the organiser Prof. Jandt
Invited to submit the lecture as a manuscript for Advanced Engineering Materials (Advanced Biomaterials)


Current position: Junior Professor

Technical University Berlin, Germany

“Nanostrukturierte Biomaterialien / Nanopatterned Biomaterials”


2006-2010: Junior research group leader

Sofja Kovalevskaja Award (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, BMBF)

“Nano- and micro-patterned biomaterials for specific biointeraction”

DWI an der RWTH Aachen e.V., Germany

TU Berlin, Germany

Nanotechnology


2005-2006: Postdoc

Humboldt research fellowship (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)

“Anchoring molecular wires via templated self-assembly”

DWI an der RWTH Aachen e.V., Germany

Macromolecular chemistry (Prof. Martin Möller)


2000-2005: PhD

Netherlands’ research school of combination: catalysis (NRSC-C)

“Catalytic porphyrin nano-assemblies”

Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Supramolecular Chemistry (Prof. Roeland J. M. Nolte, Prof. Alan E. Rowan)


1995-2000: MSc, BSc

Molecular Sciences - Physical and organic chemistry

Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Organic Chemistry (Prof. Dr. Ernst J. R. Sudhölter)

Molecular Physics (Prof. Dr. Tjeerd J. Schaafsma)

Akzo Nobel Chemicals – Chelates (Industry) (Dr. Peter Nieuwenhuizen)

Invited Lectures:

Oral contributions to international conferences:

Prof. Dr. Marga Lensen

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