Background
Flora joined the Dehns Munich office as a Trainee Patent Attorney in November 2025 after completing her dissertation at the Technical University of Munich. During her studies, Flora focused on areas such as surface science, gas phase studies and analytical chemistry. Her dissertation concerned “Gas Phase Studies of the Reactivity of Small Molecules on Tantalum(-Oxide) and Platinum(-Oxide) Clusters”.
Type of clients and client work
Flora handles patent and trade mark work before the EPO, the EUIPO and the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA), in English and German language. She works with clients of all sizes.
Expertise
Flora’s expertise covers chemical and physical fields. In particular, she has knowledge in the areas of high and ultra-high vacuum systems, laser systems, surface science approaches, analytical tools and industrial chemical conversions.
Qualifications and Memberships
Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG)
Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh)
Higher Education
Dr. rer. nat., Technische Universität München (TUM), 2025, with a dissertation titled „Gas Phase Studies of the Reactivity of Small Molecules on Tantalum(-Oxide) and Platinum(-Oxide) Clusters”
M.Sc. in Chemistry with a focus on physical and analytical chemistry, Technische Universität München (TUM), 2021, with a thesis titled “Design of an Enhanced Ce-Evaporator for CexOy Thin Film Synthesis”
B.Sc. in Chemistry, Technische Universität München (TUM), 2019, with a thesis titled “Activation of Methane on Ta8O2+ Clusters in the Gas Phase”
Other
Flora is fluent in German and English.
Department
Chemical