Holger Frey studied Chemistry at the University of Freiburg. Following a stay at Carnegie Mellon-University with Kris Matyjaszewski (Pittsburgh, USA) he obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Twente (NL).
After his Habilitation (University of Freiburg, 1998) on polycarbosilanes he moved to the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz in 2001. Since 2003 he holds a full professorship in Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry there.
His research is directed at novel linear and branched functional polymer structures, microreactor-based syntheses and biomedical materials in general. Specifically he studies and develops epoxide-polymerizations as well as carbanionic polymerizations.
To date he and his research group have published 370 peer-reviewed original research articles and reviews (H-index 71 according to google scholar). He is an associate editor of the RSC Journal “Polymer Chemistry”.