Michi J. T. and Elias are attending the conference “Polymeric Insulators for applications in electrical engineering” (Polymere Isolierstoffe in der Elektrotechnik) hosted by the Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (Verband der Elektrotechnik, Elektronik und Informationstechnik e.V., VDE) in Zittau. Today, Michi J. T. gave a great talk entitled “Composites of highly crystalline polyimides”. [Read more]

This week, Miriam is in Shanghai participating in the Sino-German Young Scientist Forum “Polymer Chemistry in Functional Materials”, funded by the Sino-German Center for Research Promotion (SGC). Looking forward to a great meeting!

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Today Miriam gave the talk “Under pressure – How to create materials inspired by nature” at TEDxTUWien. The video of Miram’s talk will be online soon – we’ll keep you posted. [Read more]

We are honored that Miriam has been elected member of the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW). Read the official OeAW press release here. [Read more]

We are very happy that our company, the TU Wien spin-off UGP materials is among the 10 finalists of this years S&B award of the Sallinger fonds! Read more here. [Read more]

Dietmar, Michi J. T. and Miriam are presenting our high-performance polyimide CRYS – fabricated by hydrothermal polymerization by our company UGP materials – at the Hannover fair this week. If you are there, visit us in hall 5 at booth D18! [Read more]

We are happy that Miriam joined our team as research assistant. Miriam will be working on hydrothermal polymerization of high-performance polymers. Check out her team member page here. [Read more]

The “Lange Nacht der Forschung 2018” was a full success! We had many curious visitors that enjoyed our booth on color – especially the UV room, where they could look at many different luminescent objects under UV light. We are looking forward to our upcoming public outreach events this year! [Read more]

We invited Cell Press lead editor Stefano Tonzani to give a talk. On Monday 9th of April, he’ll speak about “Submit a paper, get published. But what happens in between?” at 5pm at TU Wien. Find the abstract here and join us for his talk. [Read more]