Fabián delivered an exceptional presentation, providing an overview of our research topics for students about to start on their Master’s curriculum. Congratulations, Fabián! [Read more]

In October we welcome four new group members: Danica (CeMM) as a project scientist and Lena, Simon, and Margherita (UniKN) for their master theses. We wish you lots of success with your projects! [Read more]

We are delighted to welcome Bastian Jehle, our newest team member working on the synthesis of high-performance polyimides together with Florian. We are excited to have Bastian join our team and wish him lots of success with his project! [Read more]

The Science Day 2023 of the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), celebrating the 15th aAnniversary of the Young Academy took place today in Vienna. Miriam gave a talk entitled “The Chemistry of the Abiotic-Biotic Interface”, contributing a chemical perspective on the emergence of life to the conference’s topic: Life. [Read more]

Miriam gave an invited talk at the HolzOberflächenTag 2023 (Wood surfaces day) organized by Holzforschung Austria (Austrian Forest Products Research Society), which took place in Vienna, Austria on September 19th, 2023. Her talk focused on sustainable coating approaches and was entitled “Green organic chemistry – Opportunities and Challenges” (Grüne organische Chemie – Potentiale und Herausforderungen).  [Read more]

Miriam has been bestowed with the Roy-Somiya Award by the International Solvothermal and Hydrothermal Association (ISHA) ”in recognition for her commendable effort, achievements and scientific contributions in the solvothermal and hydrothermal research fields”.

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Our group participated in the International Solvothermal and Hydrothermal Association Conference (ISHA 2023), which took place in Valladolid, Spain. We presented our latest results in the field of hydrothermal synthesis with 9 contributed talks (by Alonso, Celine, Fabián, Florian, Frank, Lukas, Olivier, Robert, and Tobias, respectively), one poster (by Lisa) and Miriam’s plenary lecture. [Read more]

Fabián gave a talk entitled “Fluorescent probes for intracellular pH based on heteroaromatic containing compounds” at the retreat of the graduate school Konstanz Research School Chemical Biology (Kors-CB). He was awarded with the Best Talk Award by the jury of invited speakers. Congratulations Fabián! [Read more]

We would like to extend a warm welcome to Tejasvi Singh, who joined our group for  a three months research internship on waterborne processing of high-performance materials. We are thrilled to have Tejasvi join our team and wish her lots of success with her project! [Read more]

We are thrilled that our latest paper “Urethane functions can reduce metal salts under hydrothermal conditions: synthesis of noble metal nanoparticles on flexible sponges applied in semi-automated organic reduction“ was selected as front cover of the 10 year anniversary issue of the Journal of Materials Chemistry A! [Read more]