What a great event! Part of us were enjoying this years Science Ball, which celebrates the Viennese science landscape ion style, at the city hall of Vienna. [Read more]

Today, Miriam gave the commencement speech for the MSc graduation in technical chemistry, chemistry and technology and materials, and biomedical engineering at TU Wien. [Read more]

Prof. Magda Titirici, Chair in Sustainable Energy Materials at Imperial College London visited us and gave a wonderful and inspiring talk in the framework of the Institute of Materials Chemistry’s seminar. We are very grateful to Magda for visiting us! [Read more]

Today, PhD student Tobia Cavalli gave his presentation “Synthesis of Angular Polymer Particles as Building Blocks for Advanced Materials by Self-Assembly” at TU Wien’s BIOINTERFACE seminar. [Read more]

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]