We celebrated our much-anticipated Christmas party on December 16th. We enjoyed a whole day of conversations, laughter, drinks and awesome home-cooked food provided by all participants. We wish everyone happy holidays and a most happy and scientifically successful year 2023! [Read more]

Our lab’s Science Day took place on December 14th in Konstanz. We enjoyed a full day of talks by  all group members on their research projects along with in-depth discussions. We concluded the event with a group dinner in our favorite restaurant. Thanks to all group members for their presentation and contributions, and especially to our team members from CeMM, who traveled from Vienna to participate! [Read more]

We are very happy to welcome Olivier back to our group. Olivier stayed in our group for 6 months in 2018, and is now back with us for 10 months as part of his PhD.  His research stay is focusing on inorganic-organic nanomaterials and is a  joint effort with Polytechnique Montréal (Prof. [Read more]

We are very excited to welcome Lukas back to our research group! Lukas joins our lab at CeMM as research technician working on the hydrothermal synthesis of bioactive small molecules. [Read more]

Frank gave a talk about  his master thesis research project entitled “Structural analysis of organic inorganic dye@TiO2 hybrid materials” at this year’s Electron Microscopy in Sciences Workshop organized by ZEISS. We congratulate Frank for a great and inspiring talk! [Read more]

Fabián’s poster entitled “Imidazole containing compounds as intracellular pH sensors” was awarded the Best Poster Award at the Konstanz Research School – Chemical Biology Retreat 2022. Congratulations to Fabian for his amazing work! [Read more]

We are very happy to welcome Frederic to our group for a short research stay on the design and development of 3D printed devices for flow reactor synthesis. We wish Frederich a great time in the lab! [Read more]

We are delighted to welcome Tobias, who recently joined our group to perform his bachelor thesis on the hydrothermal synthesis heteroaromatic-based polyimides and their processing. We wish Tobias lots of success for his project and a cheerful time in the lab! [Read more]

Our most recent publication entitled “Green Hydrothermal Synthesis Yields Perylenebisimide-SiO2 Hybrid Materials with Solution-Like Fluorescence and Photoredox Activity ” was recently featured in the German newspaper Südkurier. To read the article, please access here [only available in german] [Read more]

We are excited to share our latest cover page! The cover of the 24^th issue of the Journal of Materials Chemistry A accompanies our latest publication on hydrothermally synthesized perylenebisimides-SiO₂ hybrid materials. In our manuscript, we report the intricacies of synthesizing hybrids in one-pot using nothing but water. [Read more]