Group Leader Carbohydrate Materials @ MPI of Colloids and Interfaces, Department of Biomolecular Systems
Martina Delbianco studied chemistry at the University of Milan (Italy). She then moved to Durham University (UK) to pursuit a PhD under the supervision of Prof. David Parker. During her postdoc, she explored the chemistry of carbohydrates and became familiar with automated synthesis in the group of Prof. Peter Seeberger at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, MPIKG (Germany). Since 2018, Martina has been the group leader of the Carbohydrate Materials at the MPIKG, supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the ERC starting grant. In 2022, she got promoted to W2 research group leader, a tenured position equivalent to associate professor. Her group employs synthetic oligosaccharides as probes to study polysaccharides’ structure and their tendency to self-assemble into supramolecular materials.