About Ferdinand Kohle

*CV upon request

 

Ferdinand is a multidisciplinary scientist, designer, and entrepreneur with expertise spanning materials science, biotechnology, and innovation design. He holds a PhD in Materials Science from Cornell University (NY), a MA in Innovation Design Engineering from the Royal College of Art (UK), and a BSc in Computational Chemistry from Heidelberg University (GER). 

In 2021, Ferdinand founded CipherX Technologies Ltd, a deep-tech startup pioneering microneedle technology for applications in consumer, cosmetic, and medical markets.

Prior to founding CipherX, he served as a Customer Project Manager at Vetter Pharma (Ravensburg, GER), where he supported Fortune 500 pharmaceutical companies in the development, packaging, and market launch of injectable drug products. He also worked as a research associate in the Molly Stevens Lab at Imperial College London, focusing on technology translation in biomedical materials.

From 2013 to 2018, he was a research assistant at Cornell University and Memorial Sloan Kettering-Cornell Center for Translation of Cancer Nanomedicine (NY), where he developed novel nanomaterials for cancer theranostics.

 
          

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

 * co-first author

Kohle, F. F. E., Sai, H., Tait, W. R. T., Beaucage, P. A., Susca, E. M., Thedford, R. P., & Wiesner, U. B. (2024). Molecules to Masterpieces: Bridging Materials Science and the Arts. Advanced Materials, 36(49), 2413939. (Link)

Erstling, J. A., Bag, N., Gardinier, T. C., Kohle, F. F. E., DomNwachukwu, N., Butler, S. D., Kao, T., Ma, K., Turker, M. Z., Feuer, G. B., Lee, R., Naguib, N., Tallman, J. F., Malarkey, H. F., Tsaur, L., Moore, W. L., Chapman, D. V., Aubert, T., Mehta, S., Cerione, R. A., Weiss, R. S., Baird, B. A., Wiesner, U. B. “Overcoming Barriers Associated with Oral Delivery of Differently Sized Fluorescent Core-Shell Silica Nanoparticles.” Adv. Mater., 36, 2305937 (1-16) (2024). (Link)

Palin, D., Russell S., Kohle, F. F. E., O’Dowd, E. S., Flynn, Y. T.  “BioForm – learning at the intersection of science and design”. Dearq, 26, 52-59 (2020). (Link, Link2)

Kohle, F. F. E., Li, S., Turker M. Z., Wiesner, U. B. “Ultrasmall PEGylated and Targeted Core-Shell Silica Nanoparticles Carrying Methylene Blue Photosensitizer”. Biomater. Sci. Eng., in press (2019). (Link)

Kohle, F. F. E., Hinckley, J. A., Wiesner, U. B. “Dye Encapsulation in Fluorescent Core-Shell Silica Nanoparticles as Probed by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy”. J. Phys. Chem., 123, 9813-9823 (2019). (Link)

Turker, M. Z., Gardinier, T. C., Hinckley, J. A., Contreras, C. B., Woodruff, F. Ma, K., Kohle, F. F. E., Wiesner, U. B. “Inner and Outer Surface Functionalizations of Ultrasmall Fluorescent Silica Nanorings As Shown by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography”. Chem. Mater., 31, 5519-5528 (2019). (Link, SI Link)
Gardinier T. C.*, Kohle, F. F. E.*, Peerless, J. S., Ma, K., Turker, M. Z., Hinckley J. A., Yingling Y. G., Wiesner, U. “High Performance Chromatographic Characterization of Surface Chemical Heterogeneities of Fluorescent Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Core-Shell Silica Nanoparticles”. ACS Nano, 13, 1795–1804 (2019). (Link)

Barteau, K., Ma, K., Kohle, F. F. E., Gardinier, T., Beaucage, P., Gillilan, R.; Wiesner, U. “Quantitative Measure of the Size Dispersity in Ultrasmall Fluorescent Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Core-Shell Silica Nanoparticles by Small-angle X-ray Scattering”. Chem Mater, 31, 643–657 (2019). (Link)

Kohle, F. F. E., Hinckley, J. A., Li, S., Dhawan, N., Katt, W. P., Erstling, J.A., Werner-Zwanziger, U., Zwanziger, J., Cerione, R. A., Wiesner, U. B. “Amorphous Quantum Nanomaterials”. Adv Mater., 31, 1806993 (2018). (Link)

Kohle, F. F. E., “Characterizing and Controlling Optical Properties of Nanomaterials for Applications in Optical Super-Resolution Microscopy, Cancer Theranostics, and Arts and Architecture”. PhD diss., Cornell University, 2018, ProQuest. (Link)

Kao, T., Kohle, F. F. E., Ma, K., Aubert, T., Andrievsky, A., & Wiesner, U. “Fluorescent Silica Nanoparticles with Well-Separated Intensity Distributions from Batch Reactions”. Nano Lett, 18, 1305-1310 (2018). (Link)

Nath, P., Mangal, R., Kohle, F. F. E., Choudhury, S., Narayanan, S., Wiesner, U., & Archer, L. A. “Dynamics of Nanoparticles in Entangled Polymer Solutions”. Langmuir, 34, 241–249 (2017). (Link)

Kohle, F. F. E., “Analysis of higher-order coupling constants of pyrrol” (in german). B.Sc. thesis, Heidelberg Universität, 2011.
[results were published in: Faraji, S., Vazdar, M., Reddy, V.S., Eckert-Maksic, M., Lischka, H., Köppel, H. “Ab Initio Quantum Dynamical Study of the Multi-State Nonadiabatic Photodissociation of Pyrrole”. J Chem Phys, 135, 154310 (2011).] (Link)

PATENTS

Kohle, F. F. E., Wiesner, U.B. “Inorganic Nanophotosensitizers and Methods of Making and Using Same” WO2019213458A1 (2019). (Link)

Gardinier, T. C., Kohle, F. F. E., Hinckley, J.A., Wiesner, U.B. “Ultrasmall Nanoparticles and Methods of Making, Using and Analyzing Same.” WO2019213456A1 (2019). (Link)

Kohle, F. F. E., Hinckley, J.A., Dhawan, N., Wiesner, U.B. “Sulfur- or Heavy Atom-Containing Nanoparticles, Methods of Making Same, and Uses Therof.” WO2018191316A1 (2018). (Link)