Franziska Lissel is a TU Dresden Young Investigator, Liebig Fellow of the Association of Chemical Industries Germany (FCI), and heads the Functional Electronic Materials (FEM) Group at the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research. Her group investigates organometallic conjugated polymers and polymeric matrices for MALDI MS and MALDI MS, and also works on stretchable and recyclable polymer electronics, and interfaces and Molecular Machines. She was an acting professor at the University of Jena, a postdoc at Stanford University with Zhenan Bao, and obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Zurich.