Adjunct Professor Stefan Guldin

Scientific Co-Director, Resident Principal Investigator
TUMCREATE Singapore, Proteins4Singapore


Email: [email protected]
Related link: TUMCREATE - Proteins4Singapore

Key Research Interests

Professor Guldin's research interests lie in the exploration of material formation at the nanoscale and their translation into diverse applications across the life sciences. By integrating concepts of molecular self-assembly and colloid chemistry at bio-nano interfaces, his group develops adaptive and responsive material architectures for sustainable food solutions as well as healthcare and environmental technologies.

Biographical Information

Prof. Guldin holds a degree in physics from TU Munich, where he specialised in soft condensed matter. He completed his doctoral studies at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, earning a PhD in 2012 for his work on Inorganic Nanoarchitectures by Organic Self-Assembly. Following postdoctoral research at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (2012–2015), he joined University College London as a Lecturer, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2018 and to Full Professor in 2022. In 2024, Prof. Guldin was appointed by TU Munich and seconded to TUMCREATE Ltd., where he currently serves as Scientific Co-Director and Resident Principal Investigator of the Proteins4Singapore project.

Selected Publications

  1. A. Alvarez-Fernandez, J. Maiz, M. Faustini, M. Stefik, G. Soler-Illia, S. Guldin: “Mesoporous Thin Film Architectures: Addressing Material Demands through Molecular Self-Assembly”. Accounts of Materials Research 2025, DOI: 10.1021/accountsmr.5c00262.
  2. M. Jara Fornerod, A. Alvarez-Fernandez, M. Füredi, A.A. Rajendran, B. Prieto-Simon, N.H. Voelcker⋆, S. Guldin: “Block copolymer-assembled nanopores enable ultra-sensitive label-free DNA detection”. Nanoscale Horizons 2025, 10, 760–769.
  3. B.Q. Kim, Z. Vicars, M. Füredi, L.F. Escobedo, R.B. Venkatesh, S. Guldin, A.J. Patel, D. Lee: “Amphiphilic nanopores that condense undersaturated water vapor and exude water droplets”. Science Advances 2025, 11, eadu8349.
  4. K. Wong, T.R. Arruda, K.T. Butler, S. Guldin, S. Schrettl: “Machine Learning for food colloids: novel tools to advance fundamental understanding, stability, texture, and processability”. Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science 2025, 78, 101937.
  5. A. Wang, C. Breakwell, F. Foglia, R. Tan, L. Lovell, X. Wei, T. Wong, N. Meng, H. Li, A. Seel, M. Sarter, K. Smith, A. Alvarez-Fernandez, M. Füredi, S. Guldin, M.M. Britton, N.B. McKeown, K.E. Jelfs, Q. Song: “Selective ion transport through hydrated micropores in polymer membranes”. Nature 2024, 635, 353–358.
  6. K. Wong, R. Qi, Y. Ye, Z. Luo, S. Guldin, K.T. Butler: “Predicting colloidal interaction parameters from small angle X-ray scattering curves using artificial neural networks and Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling”, JACS AU 2024, 4, 3492 – 3500.
  7. N. Mac Fhionnlaoich, S. Schrettl, N.B. Tito, Y. Yang, M. Nair, L.A. Serrano, K. Harkness, P.C. Silva, H. Frauenrath, F. Serra, W.C. Carter, F. Stellacci, S. Guldin: “Reversible microscale assembly of nanoparticles driven by the phase transition of a thermotropic liquid crystal”, ACS Nano 2023, 17, 9906 – 9918.
  8. J. Suthar, A. Alvarez-Fernandez, E. Osarfo-Mensah, S. Angioletti-Uberti, G.R. Williams, S. Guldin: “Amplified EQCM-D detection of extracellular vesicles using 2D gold nanostructure arrays fabricated by block copolymer self-assembly”, Nanoscale Horizons 2023, 8, 460 – 472.
  9. N. Mac Fhionnlaoich, S. Guldin: “Information entropy as a reliable measure of nanoparticle dispersity” Chemistry of Materials 2020, 32, 3701 – 3706.
  10. A. Finnemore, P.S. Cunha, T. Shean, S. Vignolini, S. Guldin, M. Oyen, U. Steiner: “Biomimetic layer-by-layer assembly of artificial nacre”. Nature Communications 2012, 3, 966.