Renate Naumann studied chemistry at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Her thesis dealt with the separation and analytical determination of mono- and oligomers in polyesters. She then worked as an analytical chemist first for the Zimmer AG at Frankfurt/M.in the field of chromatography and potentiometry, then for the Fluka AG Buchs SG, Switzerland in the fields of IR spectroscopy and gas chromatography, and finally for the Merck company where she specialized in the field of electrochemistry, particularly concerning stripping and differential pulse polarography techniques for trace analytical determinations of heavy metals in high concentrated electrolyte solutions, potentiometry, ion-sensitive electrodes, determination of redox potentials and pK values, analysis of the kinetics of electrochemical redox processes etc. She was also in charge of a laboratory of high-precision differential potentiometry measurements accredited for the certification of reference materials for the determination of the pH value. She worked first as a national representative later as a titular member in the commission of electroanalytical methods in the analytical division of the Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) in the years 1995-2002. Still in the Merck company, she started to develop tethered lipid bilayer systems for the investigation of ion transport through reconstituted membrane proteins. This work is now continued since, as a senior scientist, she joined the material research group of Prof. Wolfgang Knoll. Here, her main interests focus on electrochemical impedance and surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy and IR spectroscopy studies on proteins in tethered bilayer lipid membranes.

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