Franziska Fuhl began her chemistry studies at TU Dortmund University in 2018 at the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and completed her bachelor's thesis in the field of organic chemistry in 2021. She continued her master's degree at TU Dortmund University and received the BASF SE Germany Scholarship from 2021-2023. She completed her master's degree in organic chemistry in 2023. She then completed a three-month industrial internship at Wacker Chemie AG in Munich and subsequently a three-month English language course at Western Washington University in Bellingham, USA. She has been working as a research assistant at the Chair of Technical Chemistry since April 2024.

Renewable raw materials, such as vegetable oils, carbohydrates and terpenes, represent sustainable alternatives to fossil raw materials, which will be indispensable for the chemical industry in the future. However, their use requires the development of new sustainable and environmentally friendly processes, which must also be economical. A promising approach for the conversion of oleochemicals into useful synthesis building blocks is homogeneous transition metal catalysis. The aim of this work is therefore to develop a catalytic process for the cleavage and functionalisation of monounsaturated oleochemicals with the formation of sustainable mono- and bifunctional polymer building blocks.