At the beginning of 2000 Uwe Pieles took up the position as lecturer for ch
emistry at the University of Applied Sciences in Muttenz (FHBB), Besides te
aching and the supervision of students, his main responsibility is the impl
ementation of a nanotechnology project that focuses on the investigation an
d chemical modification of surfaces, Dr. Pieles completed his university ed
ucation at the Universities of Bielefeld and Gottingen and the Max Planck I
nstitute for Experimental Medicine, This was followed by a postdoctoral fel
lowship at the EMBL in Heidelberg, He then worked in industry at Ciba Geigy
in Basel and BYK Gulden in Konstanz where he was responsible for developin
g various nucleic acid analysis techniques.