We wish all our friends and collaborators an excellent year 2019! May 2019 bring lots of great happiness, great discoveries and successes! [Read more]

We end the year with the great news that the article “Thioalkyl- and sulfone-substituted poly(p-phenylene vinylene)s” was accepted for publication in Polymer Chemistry. We are happy to have contributed to this study lead by our collaboration partner Florian Glöcklhofer! [Read more]

We have a PhD position available within the CeMM – the Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences PhD program “Molecular Technologies and Systems Medicine“. Deadline for application is January 7, 2019. Apply! [Read more]

The latest Austrian Academy of Sciences‘ podcast Makro Mikro dealt with the topic failures in science and academia. The discussion entitled “Fucked-up Science” betwee archeologist Julia Budka and Miriam can be listened to here. [Read more]

We had a wonderful Xmas dinner today celebrating a great year 2018! Thanks to all coworkers for their hard work in 2018, which lead to great scientific discoveries, several new advanced materials, very nice publications, conference contributions, and successful public outreach events! Thank you Alonso, Elias, Fabián, Hipassia, Lukas L. [Read more]

Lukas P. Leutgeb did an excellent job presenting his MSc thesis work twice this week: in the seminar of the Institute of Materials Chemistry of TU Wien (Nov 28), and in the seminar of the Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry of TU Wien (Nov 30). Well done Lukas! [Read more]

POLYMAT, the Basque Center for Macromolecular Design and Engineering, invited Miriam to give the opening talk, entitled “Non-classical Syntheses of Polyheterocyclics” of this years POLYMAT Day. The event was wonderful, with great talks by POLYMAT postdocs and inspiring discussions! Thanks much to David Mecerreyes for the invitation! [Read more]

Great news: Our company UGP materials, which is aiming at bringing high-performance polymers generated by hydrothermal polymerization to the market, just received PreSeed funding by the aws (Asutria Wirtschaftsservice)! [Read more]

We are very grateful for a generous book donation by the city of Vienna (MA7 – culture department)! All books we received are publications of lectures held in the framework of the Wiener Vorlesungen (Vienna Lectures) – we will distribute these books to students enrolled in Tu Vienna’s MSc in chemistry and read them in class. [Read more]

From October 28 to November 18, Miriam was one of the 49 women invited by the US State Department to participate in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) – thematic program “Women in STEM”. Grateful for this wonderful and inspiring opportunity! [Read more]