Developments at DWI
The German Wool Research Institute Deutsches Wollforschungsinstitut has been renamed and is now called DWI at RWTH Aachen University Inc (DWI an der RWTH Aachen e.V.).
A second department has also been established at DWI. The first department, Textile Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry, is run by DWI director, Professor Dr Martin Möller, and the new department for Macromolecular Materials and Surfaces will be run by Professor Dr Alexander Böker is to take over the RWTH professorship, becoming head of the second department as well as deputy director of the DWI.
Professor Böker was born in 1973. He did his PhD at Bayreuth University in 2002 and qualified as a professor of physical chemistry in 2007. Since December 2006, he has been Professor of colloid chemistry in Bayreuth.
The textile research institute was founded in 1952 and, over the past years, research topics evolved continuously. Today, DWI is a chemical research institute focused on functional polymers, surface modification, textiles, cosmetics and biomaterials.
