Marianne was awarded with the TU Wien research grant “Kurzfristige Wissenschaftliche Arbeiten”(Short-term scientific projects) for a research stay in the lab of Prof. David Mecerreyes (Innovative Polymers Group) at the Institute for Polymer Materials of the University of the Basque Country and the Basque Center for Macromolecular Design and Engineering (POLYMAT). [Read more]

Hipassia participated in the `Speed dating with Scientists’ event within the FIT Days in Vienna. This program is sponsored by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT) and allows female high school students to chat with female scientists and engineers about their careers. Hipassia was bringing wonderful self-made book signs featuring famous female scientists as gifts to the students. [Read more]

We welcome our new team member Patricia Brandl, who joins us for her BSc Thesis. Patricia will be working alongside Hipassia on the hydrothermal synthesis of mesostructured hybrid materials. We wish you a very successful work, Patricia! [Read more]

The Austrian newspaper Der Standard featured our research on hydrothermal polymerization in the article entitled “Grüne Technik für einen blauen Planeten” (Green techniques for a blue planet). Read the article here. [Read more]

We had an amazing Xmas dinner celebrating yet again another awesome year! Thanks to all the members of our team for their great research and hard work throughout 2019. We are very much looking forward to the scientific discoveries of 2020! [Read more]

Michael gave an amazing final year presentation of his PhD thesis on the hydrothermal synthesis of high-performance polymers in our Institute of Materials Chemistry seminar. Very well done – congratulations Michael! [Read more]

We were very excited to hold our 3^rd Scientific Graphic Design workshop at CeMM. This time we had more than 30 passionate participants with their exciting research and visualization tasks – we thank them all for participating! The 3^rd 2-day workshop was taught by Miriam and tutored by Hipassia and Alonso. [Read more]

We congratulate our dear team member Patrick for successfully defending his MSc thesis. Patrick passed his viva with flying colors – congratulations from the whole team! [Read more]

We are very happy to announce the return of Lukas Leimhofer to our team . Lukas re-joins for his MSc thesis working on hydrothermal multicomponent reactions. Prior to his MSc thesis, Lukas did his BSc thesis with us and has also worked in the group as research assistant. Welcome back Lukas, we’re glad to have you again! [Read more]

Tobia received the Best Presenter Award at the Functional Nanomaterials Symposium – FuNMat2019 sponsored by Wiley in May. The award is now being featured in the latest Advanced Science News. Congratulations Tobia! Read more here. [Read more]