Prof. em. Dr. Peter Johann Walde

Peter Walde was given the title of Professor and lecturer in the group of Prof. Pier Luigi Luisi at the Institute of Polymers. His main research interests are the properties and applications of polymolecular aggregates of amphiphilic molecules (mainly micelles and lipid vesicles), an area of supramolecular chemistry. 

Peter Walde is Swiss and was born on November 24, 1956. He studied chemistry at ETH Zurich between 1975 and 1979. After his dissertation under the supervision of Prof. P. L. Luisi at ETH, he was a postdoc in the lab of Prof. C. J. O'Connor at Auckland University, New Zealand ("Auckland University Fellowship") and in the lab of Prof. J. Sunamoto in Nagasaki, Japan ("Matsumae International Foundation Fellowship"). Since 1986, Peter Walde has been back at ETH where he completed his habilitation in 1992, obtaining the "venia legendi" for the field of "supramolecular chemistry". In 1997, he was awarded the title of Professor at ETH Zurich. From 2004 to 2017, Peter Walde was part of the Polymer Chemistry group of Prof. A. Dieter Schlüter and in 2018, he joined the group of Prof. Markus Niederberger. His research interests include (i) the use of vesicles as templates for enzymatic polymerization reactions, (ii) the preparation of hybrid structures between dendronized polymers and enzymes for possible bioanalytical applications, and (iii) the use of vesicles as biomimetic and potentially prebiotic compartment systems.