I’m happy to welcome Nina Oehlsen and Tugce Demiral. Nina will work on bioinspired composites with an emphasis on their structure and formation. Tugce will work on the immobilization of algae in hydrogels. I am very happy to have found such good fits for these topics. Have a good start!
Interested in joining as well? Explore the options and feel free to contact me.
Finally, my major postdoctoral work happened from 2016-2019 has beend pulished at PNAS https://www.pnas.org/content/118/23/e2020160118.
Some other outlets picked up the story:
Advanced Photon Source press release:
https://www.aps.anl.gov/APS-Science-Highlight/2021-06-01/a-rare-mineral-from-rocks-found-in-mollusk-teeth
New York Times press release
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/31/science/mollusk-wandering-meatloaf-santabarbaraite.html
Northwestern University PR:
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2021/05/rare-mineral-from-rocks-found-in-chiton-teeth
Science News PR:
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/teeth-wandering-meatloaf-mollusk-rare-mineral-magnetite-rocks
Uni Stuttgart
https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/universitaet/aktuelles/presseinfo/Ultraharte-Weichtierzaehne-erforscht/
Muhamad will start his PhD thesis at the Hochschule of Munich. We wish him all the best on his future way, I am sure it will involve great discoveries.
With the immense support of Muhamad’s and Katharina’s work in the lab, Linus has acquired the Elite-Postdoc by the BW-Stiftung. For more information check out the press release on the University of Stuttgart newsticker.
Katharina and Muhamad have both handed in their thesis. A big part has been done, now we have to wait for the final certificates
Silia Quirin, pursuing her Master in Medizintechnik, has started her Studienarbeit with us: A warm welcome! She has worked in Alex’ group at the IGVP before.
Our new postdoc has started. She has worked at the great Indian Institute of Technology Madras before and has a background in soft matter for actuation. A warm welcome!
Katharina studies technical biology and will work on hydrogels and living materials. It is a pleasure for all of us to have you here!
Muhamad has started right before the Corona virus made its impact on Germany. He studies Biofabrication at Uni Bayreuth and is a great new player in our team.
Linus Stegbauer will give a talk at the 5th Bio-Inspired Materials Conference in Irsee, Germany. He will present his former and current research on Tuesday, March 17, 2020, 9.50 am. Come by to learn more about him and his research!