Profile

Professional career

• 06/2012 - 07/2015
  Chair of the COST Network TD1103 “Hyperpolarization” (2012-2015).
• 06/2015 - 07/2018
  Director of the Magnetic Resonance Center Leipzig (MRZ).
• since 01/2021
  Speaker of the board of the Committee for magnetic resonance of the German Chemical Society (GDCh).
• since 01/2013
  Full professor at the Institut für Analytische Chemie at the Universität Leipzig, chair for Molecular spectroscopy and head of the Aufbau-Studium “Analytik & Spektroskopie”
• 08/2000 - 12/2012
  Assistant professor (universitair docent) and principal investigator at the Leiden Institute of Chemistry (permanent faculty position)
• 07/1997 - 07/2000
  Postdoctoral scientist in the group of Prof. Dr. Huub de Groot (Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, The Netherlands):MAS NMR on membrane proteins, photo-CIDNP on photosynthetic reaction centres
• 07/1995 - 06/1997
  Postdoctoral scientist in the group of Prof. Dr. Teizo Kitagawa (Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan):Raman spectroscopy on heme proteins
• 03/1986 - 08/1987
  Social work in the old age home Beth Achwa, Tel Aviv-Yad Eliahu, Israel, as volunteer of Aktion Sühnezeichen/Friedensdienste, Berlin

Education

• 08/1992 - 06/1995
  Ph.D. work at the Max-Planck-Institut für Strahlenchemie, Mülheim an der RuhrJune 1995: Dr. rer. nat., Universität-Gesamthochschule Essen “FT-NIR Raman spectroscopic investigations of the phytochrome chromophore and of tetrapyrrole model compounds”Supervisors: Prof. Dr. P. Hildebrandt and Prof. Dr. B. Schrader
• 10/1987 - 07/1992
  Study of Chemistry at the Universität-Gesamthochschule EssenJuly 1992: Diplom-Chemiker, Universität GH EssenSupervisors: PD Dr. P. Hildebrandt and Prof. Dr. B. Schrader Sept. 1990 – Feb. 1991: Exchange semester at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität JenaAug. 1989: Vordiplom (highest grade “sehr gut”)
• 02/1985 - 01/1986
  Fachoberschule (Maschinenbau),Berufliche Schulen der Stadt Essen, Schule West
• 09/1981 - 01/1985
  Vocational training as Chemielaborant (Steinkohlenbergbau)in the Bergbau-Forschung GmbH, Essen-Kray (highest grade “sehr gut”)

Panel Memberships

• 06/2012 - 07/2015
  Chair of the COST Network TD1103 “Hyperpolarization” (2012-2015).

The Matysik group aims for understanding the spin- and photochemistry of photosynthetic systems, photoreceptors and materials by development and application of optical NMR methods. 

We aim to combine the three fields of Magnetic resonance, Photo- & spin-chemistry and Spintronics. We expect that this synthesis will increase the efficiency of all fields. Working hypothesis is that the production, the transport and the use of non-Boltzmann spin-order (i.e., hyperpolarization) will be the key for the success.

To this end, we study the solid-state photo-CIDNP effect (as presently the only group in the world) in photosynthetic and flavo-systems, the application of solid-state photo-CIDNP and hyperpolarized Xenon gas, the action of photoreceptors, and the chemical reactivity of organic polymers.

• Ding, Y.; Kiryutin, A. S.; Zhao, Z.; Xu, Q.-Z.; Zhao, K.-H.; Bannister, S.; Kurle-Tucholski, P.; Kottke, T.; Sagdeev, R. Z.; Ivanov, K. L.; Yurkovskaya, A. V.; Matysik, J.

  Tailored flavoproteins acting as light-driven spin machines pump nuclear hyperpolarization

  Scientific Reports 10, 18658 (2020). 2020. pp. 18658–18658.
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• Wei, R.; Song, C.; Gräsing, D.; Schneider, T.; Bielytskyi, P.; Böttcher, D.; Matysik, J.; Bornscheuer, U.; Zimmermann, W.

  Conformational fitting of a flexible oligomeric substrate does not explain the enzymatic PET degradation

  Nature Communications. 2019. 10 (1). p. 5581.

  DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13492-9
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• Janssen, G. J.; Bielytskyi, P.; Artiukhin, D. G.; Neugebauer, J.; de Groot, H. J. M.; Matysik, J.; Alia, A.

  Photochemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization NMR on photosystem II: donor cofactor observed in entire plant

  Scientific reports. 2018.

  DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-36074-z
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• Gräsing, D.; Bielytskyi, P.; Cespedes-Camacho, I. F.; Alia-Matysik, A.; Marquardsen, T.; Engelke, F.; Matysik, J.

  Field-cycling NMR with high-resolution detection under magic-angle spinning: determination of field-window for nuclear hyperpolarization in a photosynthetic reaction center

  Scientific Reports. 2017.

  DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-10413-y
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• Berry, J. P.; Roy, U.; Jaja-Chimedza, A.; Sanchez, K.; Matysik, J.; Alia, A.

  High-Resolution Magic Angle Spinning Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Intact Zebrafish Embryos Detects Metabolic Changes Following Exposure to Teratogenic Polymethoxyalkenes from Algae

  Zebrafish. 2016. 13 (5). pp. 456–465.

  DOI: 10.1089/zeb.2016.1280
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Matysik teaches in the BSc chemistry program "Introduction to Molecular Spectroscopy" in the module "Analytics 2".

In the various MSc programs, modules dedicated to NMR are running.

In addition, Matysik is active in the organization of summer schools "Theory of NMR".

• Summer school "Theory on NMR"

  Matysik is organizing a cycle of summer schools dedicated to "theory of NMR".

• Aufbau-Studium "Analytik & Spektroskopie"

  Matysik is the organizer of the postgraduate program for professionals for further education (Aufbau-Studium) in the field of analytics & spectroscopy.

  
  

• Molecular Spectroscopy

  In the BSc Chemistry program he reads the lecture "Molecular Spectroscopy" in the module "Analytics2". 

• NMR

  In the MSc-Chemistry program, Matysik has several lectures on NMR.