Team

Lutz Nuhn graduated in biomedical chemistry at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (Germany) in 2010. In 2008/09, he practiced first research experience at MIT with Robert Langer and Daniel G. Anderson. For his PhD, he joined the group of Rudolf Zentel in Mainz (Germany) working on multifunctional carriers for peptide and oligonucleotide delivery by reactive precursor polymers. After a research stay with Prof. Kazunori Kataoka at Tokyo University (Japan), he obtained his doctoral degree in 2014. Afterwards, he became a postdoctoral associate in the group of Bruno G. De Geest at Ghent University (Belgium) working on multifunctional nanogels for lymph node focused immune activation. In summer 2017, he joined the group of Tanja Weil at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Science (Mainz, Germany) as independent research group leader. Since spring 2022, he has moved to the University of Würzburg (JMU) and founded the Chair of Macromolecular Chemistry.

Lutz Nuhn received scholarships from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), the Max Planck Graduate Center (MPGC), the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) and the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). During his time at the MPI-P he was a Liebig fellow of the FCI and since then also a project leader in the DFG Collaborative Research Center SFB-1066 “Nanodimensional Polymer Therapeutics for Tumor Therapy” (Project B3: "Treating primary and secondary liver tumors by adressing tolerance inducing M2-macrophages with immunomodulating nanocarriers" and B4: “Polymer induced tumor-immunotherapy by in situ activation of antigen presenting cells”). In spring 2019, he was appointed as Emmy-Noether research group leader supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG). In April 2022, Lutz Nuhn accepted a call as professor at the University of Würzburg (JMU) and is now leading the Chair of Macromolecular Chemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy in Würzburg. Since 2023, he has also become a member of the Bavarian Polymer Institute (BPI) and the BMBF-Cluster4Future "curATime". He also joined the DFG Collaborative Research Center SFB/TRR 225 "From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models" (Project B5: "Membrane-engineering as a tool to control the behavior of mesenchymal stem cells in biofabrication processes"). In 2024, Lutz Nuhn was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grand entitled ‘Controlled Degradable Polymer Carriers for mRNA Vaccination: From Pathogens to Personalised Cancer Immunotherapy (PolymeRNA)’.

• 2025: RSC Biomaterials Science Emerging Investigator
• 2024: ERC Consolidator Grant
• 2024: Hanwha-TotalEnergies IUPAC Young Scientist Award 
• 2024: Nanomedicine and Nanoscale Delivery Young Investigator Award (Controlled Release Society - Focus Group Nanomedicine and Nanoscale Delivery ) 
• 2023: ACS PSME Early Investigator Award
• 2022: Raising Star in Polymers by ACS Polymers AU
• 2021: Max-Max-Buchner-Scholarship (DECHEMA)
• 2021: Young Talents in Polymer Science 2020 by Macromolecular Rapid Communications
• 2021: Junior Researcher Lectureship Award (Macromolecular Colloqium Freiburg 2021)
• 2020: Hermann-Schnell-Award (GDCh-Makro)
• 2020: Polymer Chemistry Emerging Investigator by RSC Polymer Chemistry
• 2019: Immuno Delivery Young Investigator Award (Controlled Release Society - Focus Group Immuno Delivery) 
• 2018: Emmy Noether Fellow (DFG)
• 2018: Max Planck Graduate Center Junior Faculty Member 
• 2017: Liebig Fellow (FCI)
• 2017: Young Investigator Proof-Of-Concept Award (CRIG Belgium)
• 2016: Feodor-Lynen Fellow (Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation)
• 2016: Postdoctoral Fellow (FWO Belgium)
• 2012: Max Planck Graduate Center PhD Fellow
• 2011: PhD Stipend (FCI)
• 2006: Stipend by Deutsche Studienstiftung

Jannik Babilon - Reserach intern at the JMU Würzburg in 2025

Kathrin Handrup - Reserach intern at the JMU Würzburg in 2025

Lea Wiehl - Reserach intern at the JMU Würzburg in 2024

Dr. Chaojian Chen - Walter Benjamin return fellow at JMU Würzburg in 2025

Thi Thuy Duong Dinh - Reserach intern and assistant at the MPI-P in 2019+2020

Yannick Fröder - Reserach intern and assistant at the MPI-P in 2021

Sebastian Hienz - Reserach intern at the JMU Würzburg in 2025

Judith Jung - Reserach intern at the JMU Würzburg in 2025

Lucia Geyer - Reserach intern at the JMU Würzburg in 2024

Hannes Keiling - Reserach intern at the JMU Würzburg in 2023

Sven Krasel - Bachelor thesis at the MPI-P Mainz in 2020

Sven Peters - Reserach intern at the JMU Würzburg in 2023

Nicole Roesner - Research intern at the MPI-P Mainz in 2021

Takasuke Sasaki - Visiting student at the JGU Mainz in 2017

Fabian Stephan - Research intern at the MPI-P Mainz in 2021

Jonas Woller - Bachelor thesis at the MPI-P Mainz in 2021