We are happy that Miriam’s project “Polyimide Particle-Reinforced High-Performance Composites“ was approved for funding. The project is funded under the Partnership in Research (PiR) program, a joint effort between the Christian Doppler Society (CDG) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), which supports application-driven basic research projects. PiR projects are intended to give rise to cooperations with industry, and to pave the way for the establishment of Christian Doppler Labs. [Read more]

Fast Track, the top-flight, intensive education program of the Robert Bosch Stiftung, is supporting excellent female scientists on their way to leadership positions in research. Miriam was selected to be part of the 10th year. Looking forward to the program! [Read more]

Miriam is featured as one of the Austrian researchers speaking about knowledge transfer in an awareness video campaign by the Wissens- und Technologietransferzentrum Ost (WTZ Ost). Watch the videos here. [Read more]

The TU Wien Doctoral School “BIOINTERFACE”  is hiring! We have  total of 10 PhD student positions for 3 years, with starting date between October 1^st 2016 and March 31^st 2017! There will be 1 PhD position   in our lab, and nine more are available in physics / chemistry / engineering. [Read more]

Bettina was selected to participate in the I.E.C.T. Alpbach summer school on entrepreneurship. Her stay is financed by a scholarship from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology. [Read more]

We are glad that Michael Taubländer joined our team as MSc student and wish him all the best for his project. Michael’s thesis will deal with non-classical synthesis of high-performance polymers. Welcome Michael! [Read more]

Miriam is attending the 2016 Polymer Physics Gordon Research Conference at Mount Holyoke College, MA, and presenting our work on crystalline polymers in the form of a poster entitled “Crystalline Polyimides by Non-classical Polymerization Techniques”. Looking forward to a great meeting! [Read more]

Our proposal for a TU Wien Doctoral School “BIOINTERFACE”  has been accepted and a call for applications for 10 PhD positions will be opened in due course! BIOINTERFACE explores the interface between inorganic and bioorganic systems, and is coordinated by, Gerhard Schütz, Gerhard Kahl and Miriam. Link to the press release by TU Wien (in German only). [Read more]

We attend the “STEPI 10 – Polyimides and High-performance Polymers” taking place from June 6^th-9^th in Montpellier, France: Alonso, Bettina, and Lukas will present their research work in the form of poster presentations, and Miriam is giving an invited lecture on “Non-classical approaches towards polyimides: Hydrothermal polymerization and solid-state polycondensation”. [Read more]

The ProDidactica awards honor the best courses in the BSc curriculum “Technical Chemistry” at TU Wien. With the course “Inorganic Chemistry 1”, Miriam was awarded the 2^nd place in both the category “lectures – best presentation” and “lectures – fairest exam”. We are honored, especially since the awards are based on students’ votes! [Read more]