Max von Delius is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the University of Ulm. Max grew up in Northern Bavaria and studied chemistry at Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen and at Louis-Pasteur University in Strasbourg (France). He obtained his PhD from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) and was a Leopoldina postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto (Canada).
Max was awarded the Hoechst Dozentenpreis (2018), an ERC Starting Grant (2019) and the Cram-Lehn-Pedersen Prize (2022).
Junior group leader
Benjamin M. W. Roberts is a Liebig Fellow at the University of Ulm in the Institute of Organic Chemistry I. He is from the South of England and obtained his MChem degree from the University of Durham. He completed his PhD with Professor David Leigh at the University of Manchester focussing on the design and analysis of autonomous catalysis-driven molecular motors. Subsequently, Ben moved to the University of Padua, Italy as a postdoc with Professor Leonard Prins to work on nonequilibrium self-assembling systems.
In October 2025, Ben started as an independent junior group leader, with a research focus on nonequilibrium systems chemsitry and molecular machines.
Postdocs
PhD Students
MSc Students and Interns
Academic associate
Dr. Frank Dissinger is an academic associate for safety, teaching and future NMR expert at the Delius lab. He was born in Speyer and did his diploma in chemistry at the Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz including a research project at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland, UK) under supervision of Prof. Jörg Feldmann. He finished his PhD in the group of Prof. Siegfried R. Waldvogel in January 2020, researching semiconductor nanowire optoelectronics and carbon nanodots as part of the DFG research unit FOR1616. Besides fighting bureaucracy or dealing with new spectrometers, he is dedicated for progress as a board member of the GDCh, hiking/skiing or expanding his expertise as a scotch whisky enthusiast.
