On the occasion of Vienna being named the city with the highest quality of life in the world, the Austrian newspaper Kurier interviewed Miriam regarding the quality of Vienna as workplace for both scientists and entrepreneurs. Read the interview here. [Read more]
The Chemical Engineer, the monthly news magazine by the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), just published the feature article “`Green` high-tech dye synthesis” on our recent report on the synthesis and crystallization of high-performance dyes in nothing but high-temperature water. Read the article here. [Read more]
Our paper “Green and Rapid Hydrothermal Crystallization and Synthesis of Fully Conjugated Aromatic Compounds” got accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie and is featured on the inside cover page! Congratulations to first author Michael and all co-authors! Read the press release by TU Wien here. [Read more]
Our company UGP materials, which aims at bringing high-performance polymers generated by hydrothermal polymerization to the market, is looking for a head of production. Read the job description here. [Read more]
This year, the Austrian Academy of Sciences publishes a series of interviews with the newly elected members of the Young Academy. Read the interview “Materials research without poison” with Miriam on our work on the environmentally friendly synthesis of organic high-performance materials here. [Read more]
We are very happy that Matthias Bergthaler joined us for his BSc thesis! Matthias will work on the synthesis of high-performance co-polyimides. Welcome Matthias! [Read more]
We warmly congratulate PhD student Michael who was a awarded with a Christiana Hörbiger fellowship to support his 3-months research stay working on polyimide composite films with Prof. Shinji Ando at Tokyo Institute of Technology! [Read more]
We are very happy that Marianne Lahnsteiner and Fabián Andrés Amaya García joined us for their PhDs! Marianne will work on the hydrothermal synthesis of organic frameworks within our FWF START project “The hydrothermal route to functional organic frameworks”, and Fabián will work on the synthesis of novel fluorescent dyes within our WWTF project “3C – Cellular Color Chart” in cooperation with the Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (CeMM). [Read more]
Miriam’s TEDxTUWien talk “Under pressure – How to create materials inspired by nature” is now online. Watch the video here. [Read more]
Elias and Tobia participated in this year’s Vienna Young Scientist Symposium (VSS 2018). Elias gave a talk entitled “Environmentally Friendly Generation of High-Performance Polyimide Foams
Using Monomer Salts”, and Tobia gave a pitch talk and presented his poster “Design of Non-Spherical Colloidal Polymer Particles for Self-Assembled Materials”. Tobia was awarded the best presenter award – congratulations from the team! [Read more]
