Great news: Our company UGP materials, which is aiming at bringing high-performance polymers generated by hydrothermal polymerization to the market, just received PreSeed funding by the aws (Asutria Wirtschaftsservice)! [Read more]

We are very grateful for a generous book donation by the city of Vienna (MA7 – culture department)! All books we received are publications of lectures held in the framework of the Wiener Vorlesungen (Vienna Lectures) – we will distribute these books to students enrolled in Tu Vienna’s MSc in chemistry and read them in class. [Read more]

From October 28 to November 18, Miriam was one of the 49 women invited by the US State Department to participate in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) – thematic program “Women in STEM”. Grateful for this wonderful and inspiring opportunity! [Read more]

Our article “Green one-pot synthesis and processing of polyimide–silica hybrid materials” was selected for the themed collection “Women in Materials Science” of Journal of Materials Chemistry A (Royal Society of Chemistry)! [Read more]

The magazine Chemiereport – trade magazine of the Austrian chemical and life science industries – just published an interview with Miriam on our research. Read the interview here (page 22). [Read more]

Miriam was interviewed in Radio NJoy‘s radio show “start me up” on her experiences in founding her own company UGP materials. Listen to the show here. [Read more]

The study “Acid Free Oxidation and Simple Dispersion Method of MWCNT for High-Performance CFRP” lead by Prof. Helga Lichtenegger (Chair of Materials Physics, BOKU – University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna) just got published in the journal Nanomaterials! We are happy to have contributed to this study! [Read more]

As prize for Miriam winning the science slam at the FWF (Austrian Science Fund) Be Open Festival, we obtained a ticket (sponsored by the FWF and the I.E.C.T. – the Institute for Entrepreneurship Cambridge Tyrol Hermann Hauser) to the Falling Walls Labs in Berlin. PhD student Tobia attended the event – thanks to the FWF and the I.E.C.T. [Read more]

We are extremely happy to share that Miriam is one of the newly appointed Adjunct PIs at CeMM – Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences! [Read more]

Lukas, Patrick, Marianne, Hipassia, and Musthafa (from left to right) attended the Green Chemistry Conference Vienna 2018, held in the framework of the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. [Read more]