Marcel Boecker

Marcel studied chemistry at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz  (Germany), where he received his Master’s degree in 2020. For his  Master’s thesis in the group of Prof. Tanja Weil, he worked on a  polydopamine-based hybrid film for photocatalytic water splitting  (“Bio-inspired polydopamine-hybrid-films for the self-regulatory  photocatalytic water splitting”). In May 2020, he started his PhD at the  Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, where his research focused  on photocatalytic systems as well as light-responsive nanofilms and  membranes, including light actuation and photopatterning. He received  his doctorate in September 2025. His doctoral thesis was titled “Photoactive Polycatecholamine-Based Materials.”