Welcome to the website of the research laboratory led by Dr. Florian Glöcklhofer, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry at TU Wien and Visiting Researcher at Imperial College London.

In our lab, we aim to translate research on fundamental effects in organic molecules into the development of ground-breaking materials for applications. Explore this website to find out more about our current work on the design and synthesis of redox-active conjugated macrocycles and polymers for battery electrodes and other applications.

In our key project, funded by an ERC Starting Grant, we aim to develop conjugated polymers with interchain aromaticity.

Contact

Ass. Prof. Dr. Florian Glöcklhofer

TU Wien

Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry

1060 Wien (Vienna), Austria

florian.gloecklhofer@tuwien.ac.at

Welcome Tomoki and Masahiro!

We are very excited to welcome Tomoki Sekihara from the Osaka Institute of Technology (OIT) to our lab. We were also honoured to welcome Prof. Masahiro Muraoka from OIT for a three-day visit.

Oct 17

Meet the team: Lisa Lenz

Lisa joined our team in January 2025 as a PhD student, having completed her Master thesis on the topic of supported gold nanoclusters for selective hydrogenation of alkynes in the ClusCat Lab and after a research stay in Valencia.

Oct 1

Meet the team: Simon Mc Grady

Simon joined our team in October 2024 as a PhD student and played a key role in setting up the lab. With his two years of industry experience as a Laboratory Scientist at Boehringer Ingelheim, he knew exactly how he would like the lab and his fume hood to be set up!

Oct 1

Photoexciting Molecules conference at ISTA

Florian attended the Photoexciting Molecules conference at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) in Klosterneuburg near Vienna. The conference provided a fantastic opportunity to hear about molecular photoswitches and photochemical synthesis from an impressive line-up of speakers. It was also a great occasion to meet our new chemistry neighbours in Klosterneuburg.

Sep 25

Welcome Joseph!

We're delighted to welcome Joseph Förner to our lab! Joseph is joining us for his Bachelor thesis project, for which he will he will synthesize some excting new macrocycles.

Aug 4

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