PhD student Marianne Lahnsteiner’s first author publication “Hydrothermal polymerization of porous aromatic polyimide networks and machine learning-assisted computational morphology evolution interpretation”, just appeared in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A. The article is the result of an intensive study and collaboration with Prof. Arne Thomas group (TU Berlin), Prof. [Read more]

Miriam was recently interviewed about  her must-have items. The interview appeared in the Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard in the section lifestyle . To read the interview online please access here. [available only in German] Photo by Nathan Murrell. [Read more]

We are looking for a PhD student excited about automation of chemical synthesis and artificial intelligence (AI)-supported prediction. Applications are to be submitted until August 25^th, 2021. To find out more about the position, please access here. [Read more]

Miriam was recently interviewed on her views on innovation in materials science. The interview appeared in the section portraits with a focus on innovation (Porträts zum Schwerpunkt Innovation) in the latest edition of the online magazine LEICHT!. To read the interview on page 14-15, please access here. [Read more]

Hipassia participated among 600 young scientists from all over the world in the 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, which was live streamed from Lindau. Congratulations Hipassia for this well-deserved honor! [Read more]

We are currently looking for a postdoc excited about COFs and related small molecules at the interface of materials chemistry and biology. The opening  is available within  the framework of CeMM’s Pre-ERC Postdoc Program. Applications are to be submitted until July 31^st, 2021. To submit your application and find out more about the program, click here. [Read more]

Miriam was elected as a Bürgenstock Junior Scientist Participation (JSP) fellow 20/21 of the Division of Fundamental Research of the Swiss Chemical Society. This award recognizes young promising European scientists at the beginning of their academic careers. [Read more]

Miriam gave several online talks in June and is grateful to the respective hosts and organizers, as well as audiences for great discussions! A big thank you to the Austrian Young Chemists Association, JCF (Talk: “Nothing but water: Hydrothermal synthesis of N-Heterocycle-based materials”, May 3^rd, 2021), the Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Chemistry at the University of Nottingham (Talk: “Synthesis of materials rich in aromatics and heterocyclics using water and heat“, June 10^th, 2021), the Chemistry Department of King’s College London (Talk: “Hydrothermal and solid-state synthesis of heterocycle-based materials and small molecules“, June 16^th, 2021), and the Advanced Materials Research Group at the faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham (Talk: “From All-Organic Salts To High-Performance Materials“, June 28^th, 2021)!  [Read more]

As of June 1^st , 2021, Miriam has assumed the professorship of solid-state chemistry at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Konstanz. We are indebted to all students, coworkers, collaboration partners, mentors, friends, family, and supporters who accompanied us along the way during the last years. We are very excited for future endeavours and new challenges! [Read more]

Our recent publication entitled “Tuning the glass transition of siloxane-based poly(ionic liquid)s towards high ion conductivity” is now available online! This work resulted from a collaboration with Jiayin Yuan’s Lab (Stockholm University). We congratulate all co-authors, especially first author Manuel Reiter, who carried out this impressive work during his Masters thesis. [Read more]