Dr. Philip Gasse

Researcher

Philip Gasse is a Researcher in the Cluster for Natural and Technical Sciences Arms Control Research (CNTR) in the Biological and Chemical Disarmament and Security Research Group. His research focuses on investigating the impact of AI on chemical weapons arms control in order to identify opportunities and risks and develop new regulatory measures or verification mechanisms.

Philip Gasse
philip.gasse(at)prif.org
 Press photo

CV

| since 02/2026
Researcher at PRIF

| 10/2022–12/2025
Research assistant / PhD, Chemistry

| 10/2019–10/2022
Master of Science, Chemistry

| 11/2018–06/2021
Research assistant

| 04/2016–10/2019
Bachelor of Education, Chemistry and Political Education

| 04/2011–10/2015
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science

Publications

  • Solvatochromism of thiocyanate-labeled arabinopyranose
    | 2025
    Stensitzki, T.; Kennins, M.; Gasse, P.; Linker, T.; Jansen, T. L. C.; Müller-Werkmeister, H. M. (2025): Solvatochromism of thiocyanate-labeled arabinopyranose, im Erscheinen.
  • Monitoring active site dynamics of hexokinase in complex with glucose by 2D-IR spectroscopy
    | 2025
    Gasse, P.; Stensitzki, T.; Sohraby, T.; Schenderlein, M.; Nunes Alvez, A.; Müller-Werkmeister, H. M. (2025): Monitoring active site dynamics of hexokinase in complex with glucose by 2D-IR spectroscopy, im Erscheinen.
  • Direct monitoring of enzymatic kinetics of hexokinase via 2D-IR spectroscopy of ATP/ADP phosphate signals
    | 2025
    Stensitzki, T.; Gasse, P.; Fuhrmann, T.; Müller-Werkmeister, H. M. (2025): Direct monitoring of enzymatic kinetics of hexokinase via 2D-IR spectroscopy of ATP/ADP phosphate signals, ChemRxiv: Pre-print. DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-j5szt
  • 2D-IR spectroscopy of azide-labeled carbohydrates in H2O
    | 2024
    Gasse, P.; Stensitzki, T.; Müller-Werkmeister, H. M. (2024): 2D-IR spectroscopy of azide-labeled carbohydrates in H2O, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 161: 195101. DOI: 10.1063/5.0225308
  • 2D-IR spectroscopy of carbohydrates: Characterization of thiocyanate-labeled β-glucose in CHCl3 and H2O
    | 2023
    Gasse, P.; Stensitzki, T.; Mai-Linde, Y.; Linker, T.; Müller-Werkmeister, H. M. (2023): 2D-IR spectroscopy of carbohydrates: Characterization of thiocyanate-labeled β-glucose in CHCl3 and H2O, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 158: 145101 (invited Special Issue). DOI: 10.1063/5.0139166

Further Activities

  • Member of the Education and Science Union (GEW)

Conference presentations:

  • Labeled carbohydrates for the investigation of protein-ligand interactions with 2D-IR spectroscopy. Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy 24, Early Career Symposium (24–28 June 2024), York, United Kingdom.
  • Labeled carbohydrates for the investigation of protein-ligand interactions with 2D-IR spectroscopy. Bunsen Conference 24 (25–27 March 2024), Aachen, Germany.

Poster presentations:

  • Tracking the enzymatic activity of Hexo­kinase with 2D-IR spectro­scopy following phosphate vibrations. Bunsen­tagung 25 (17–19 March 2025), Leipzig, Germany.
  • Carbohydrates with vibrational probes: Enabeling IR spectro­scopic studies of carbo­hydrate-protein inter­actions. German Biophysical Society 24 (22–25 September 2024), Leipzig, Germany.
  • 2D-IR spectroscopy of carbo­hydrates: Characteri­zation of labeled β-glucose with azide and thiocyanate reporter groups and solvato­chromism of thiocyanate labeled arabinose. Time Resolved Vibrational Spectro­scopy (TRVS) 23 (11–16 June 2023), Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • 2D-IR spectroscopy of carbo­hydrates: Characteri­zation of labeled β-glucose with azide and thiocyanate reporter groups and solvato­chromism of thiocyanate labeled arabinose. Bunsen­tagung 23 (05–07 June 2023), Berlin, Germany.
  • 2D-IR spectroscopy of carbo­hydrates with site-specific reporter groups. European Conference on the Spectro­scopy of Biological Molecules (ECSBM) 22 (29 August – 02 September 2022), Reims, France.
  • 2D-IR spectroscopy of carbo­hydrates with site-specific reporter groups. Coherent Multi­dimensional Spectro­scopy (CMDS) 22 (Hybrid conference, 20–24 June 2022), Austin (TX), USA. Online.

Maucher, Mathias; Gasse, Philip: TTIP: Gesund­heit und Pflege sind keine Handels­ware. ZEIT Online, May 15, 2016. Online.