The Innovation and Incubation Center (i2c), TU Wien’s start-up incubator, published their innovation booklet featuring Miriam as i2c alumna. [Read more]

TU Wien’s vicerector for teaching, Prof. Dr. Kurt Matyas, officially delivered Miriam’s habilitation (venia docendi) decree today! [Read more]

Today Miriam gave an invited talk at WTZ (Wissens- und Technologietransfer der Wiener Universitäten – Knowledge and Technology Transfer Center of the Viennese Universities) conference on technology transfer. Miriam’s talk was entitled “Beyond (Basic) Research – Key Factors of Technology Transfer for Researchers” and summarized her main learnings from patent applications, prototype funding and founding her own company UGP Materials. [Read more]

On the 22nd of October, Miriam will participate in the Wiener Vorlesung (Vienna Lecture) on “curiosity in science”, with Helga Nowotny, Elisabeth Oberzaucher and Michael Eichmaier. Sign up for the event here. [Read more]

We congratulate PhD student Tobia who won a poster prize (2nd place) at the Self-Assembly of Colloidal Systems (SACS) conference 2018 in Bordeaux with his poster “Synthesis of Angular Polymer Particles as Building Blocks for Advanced Materials by Self-Assembly”. [Read more]

Miriam visited the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research (IPF) in Dresden today – very grateful to Dr. Anett Müller and Dr. Astrid Drechsler for organizing this great day, and very impressed by the IPF’s cutting-edge plastics engineering facilities!

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We participated in today’s materials innovation day at TU Wien organized by TU Wien and the Viennese Chamber of Commerce. Miriam gave a talk entitled “Polyimide Synthesis and Processing”, Alonso presented a poster entitled “Synthesis of Polyimide Films from Aqueous Solutions”, and Dietmar presented our company UGP materials. [Read more]

During the last 3 days, the whole team was communicating with the Viennese public at the Wiener Forschungsfest (Vienna Science Festival). We explained various aspects of color chemistry – ranging from the origin of color to dye synthesis and the use of dyes for cell labelling – illustrated by several hands-on experiments. [Read more]

Miriam successfully defended her habilitation and obtained her venia docendi in materials chemistry.Congratulations from the whole team! [Read more]

On the occasion of the Austrian Science Funds 50th anniversary, the science festival BeOpen is held this week. Today, Miriam participated in two events at BeOpen: the panel discussion on “pioneering spirit”, and the science slam on the theme “failure in science”. Miriam won the science slam – congratulations from the whole team! [Read more]