Kara Müller

PhD Student

kara.mueller@tum.de

 

Education:

since 04/2021

PhD Thesis in Analytical Chemistry with PD Dr. Natalia P. Ivleva, Institute of Water Chemistry, Chair of Analytical Chemistry and Water Chemistry, Technical University of Munich.

 

09/2019 – 02/2020

External Master Thesis: „Synthesis and Characterization of Doped Titanium Dioxides“. The practical part was performed at the Automotive Catalysts, Research and Technology Devision of Umicore AG & Co. KG in Hanau and the thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Klaus Köhler, Chair of Inorganic Chemistry, Technical University Munich.

 

10/2017 – 02/2020

Master of Science in Chemistry with Inorganic Chemistry as major and Physical Chemistry as minor at Technical University of Munich.

 

10/2017 – 02/2018

External Research Project at Syft Technologies in Christchurch, New Zealand: „Monitoring volatiles in CO2 using SIFT-MS“.

 

10/2014 – 11/2017

Bachelor of Science in Chemistry at Technical University of Munich.
Bachelor Thesis: „An Improved UHV-catalysis setup – Modification and Calibration“, supervised by Prof. Dr. Ueli Heiz at Chair of Physical Chemistry, Technical University of Munich.

 

Project:

Stable Isotope Raman Microspectroscopy (SIRM) for Quantitative and Nondestructive 2D & 3D Analysis of Biofilms: Microbial Degradation of Microplastic / StaR_Mic2

Publications

J. Weng, K. Müller, O. Morgaienko, M. Elsner, N. P. Ivleva, Multi-element Stable Isotope Raman Microspectroscopy of Bacterial Carotenoids Unravels Rare Signal Shift Patterns and Single-cell Phenotypic Heterogeneity, Analyst 2023, 148, 128–136, doi.org/10.1039/D2AN01603F

Poster Presentation

Müller, K.; Weng, J.; Elsner, M.; Ivleva, N.P., Exploring the potential of Raman microspectroscopy for the analysis of microbial degradation of microplastics. 17th Confocal Raman Imaging Symposium, 27.09.-01.10.2021, (online).