Acknowledgments
I would like to express my deep gratitude to my teachers who inspired in my
scientific career.
I am very thankful to Prof. Dr. Renata Bilewicz, supervisor of my Ph.D. thesis.
Her inspiration to the electrochemical examination of electrodes modified by organized molecular films has become an important part of my research activities.
I would like to express my deep gratitude to Prof. Dr. Jacek Lipkowski, from
whom I learnt how to apply electrochemistry to infrared spectroscopy techniques. I
thank him for numerous scientific discussions and advices which I received over the
course of many years. The combination of surface modification techniques with
spectroelectrochemistry opened new research areas for me, in particular in the field
of bioelectrochemistry.
I am very thankful to Prof. Dr. Gunther Wittstock for the received support during
the introduction of polarization modulation infrared reflection-absorption spectroscopy with electrochemical control at the University of Oldenburg. I benefited from
numerous discussions with him, which in an elegant way combined constructive
criticism with enthusiasm in research.
A significant part of the results described in this monograph could not have been
realized without team work and collaborations. I am very thankful to Prof. Dr. Vlad
Zamlynny for the maintenance of scientific contact and discussions, in particular
about polarization modulation infrared reflection-absorption spectroscopy. I would
like to thank him for sharing with me OpticalConstants and Fresnel computation
programs. I would like to thank Prof. Bernhard Gollas, Prof. Jacek Lipkowski,
Prof. Elena Baranova, and Dr. Saustin Dongmo for providing me figures, which I
reproduced in this monograph. I would like to thank my Ph.D., M.Sc. students and
visitors to our research group for their experimental work and data analysis. I would
like to acknowledge their enthusiasm, dedication to work, and valuable discussions
of experimental results as well as planning of new experiments. I acknowledge the
German Science Foundation (DFG) for financial support, which I have received in
the last years. Parts of Chaps. 3 and 4 describe results obtained during the realization
of DFG research projects.
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I would like to express my deep gratitude to my teachers who inspired in my
scientific career.
I am very thankful to Prof. Dr. Renata Bilewicz, supervisor of my Ph.D. thesis.
Her inspiration to the electrochemical examination of electrodes modified by organized molecular films has become an important part of my research activities.
I would like to express my deep gratitude to Prof. Dr. Jacek Lipkowski, from
whom I learnt how to apply electrochemistry to infrared spectroscopy techniques. I
thank him for numerous scientific discussions and advices which I received over the
course of many years. The combination of surface modification techniques with
spectroelectrochemistry opened new research areas for me, in particular in the field
of bioelectrochemistry.
I am very thankful to Prof. Dr. Gunther Wittstock for the received support during
the introduction of polarization modulation infrared reflection-absorption spectroscopy with electrochemical control at the University of Oldenburg. I benefited from
numerous discussions with him, which in an elegant way combined constructive
criticism with enthusiasm in research.
A significant part of the results described in this monograph could not have been
realized without team work and collaborations. I am very thankful to Prof. Dr. Vlad
Zamlynny for the maintenance of scientific contact and discussions, in particular
about polarization modulation infrared reflection-absorption spectroscopy. I would
like to thank him for sharing with me OpticalConstants and Fresnel computation
programs. I would like to thank Prof. Bernhard Gollas, Prof. Jacek Lipkowski,
Prof. Elena Baranova, and Dr. Saustin Dongmo for providing me figures, which I
reproduced in this monograph. I would like to thank my Ph.D., M.Sc. students and
visitors to our research group for their experimental work and data analysis. I would
like to acknowledge their enthusiasm, dedication to work, and valuable discussions
of experimental results as well as planning of new experiments. I acknowledge the
German Science Foundation (DFG) for financial support, which I have received in
the last years. Parts of Chaps. 3 and 4 describe results obtained during the realization
of DFG research projects.
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