Group News
Highlight in Phys. Rev. Letters: Amplification of acoustic forces
- 24 June 2022
Highlighted as Physics Focus & Editor's suggestion
The work shows how centimeter-scale objects in liquid can be manipulated using the mutual attraction of two arrays of air bubbles in the presence of sound waves and it is part of an extensive Physics Focus by Philip Ball.
Rahul Goyal Athanasios Athanassiadis Zhichao Ma Peer Fischer
Work on chiral nanostructures awarded RSC Horizon Prize
- 07 June 2022
Winner Royal Society of Chemistry 2022 Faraday Division Horizon Prize
We are part of a team of scientists that has won the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Faraday Division Horizon Prize for the discovery of chiroptical harmonic scattering, theoretically predicted in 1979 and demonstrated experimentally 40 years later. Our colleagues are in the UK and Belgium - thank you.
Dr. Hannah-Noa Barad appointed Assistant Professor at Bar Ilan University
- 01 March 2022
Congratulations and good luck to Dr. Barad!
Congrats and good luck to Hannah-Noa Barad, who was a Minerva Fellow and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Group. Hannah will join the Department of Chemistry at Bar Ilan University, Israel, as an Assistant Professor. Best of luck and lots of success!
Dr. Zhichao Ma appointed Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- 10 October 2021
Congrats and good luck to Dr. Zhichao Ma
Congrats and good luck to Zhichao Ma, Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow in the Group, who will join the School of Biomedical Engineering, and the Institute of Medical Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, as an Associate Professor. Best of luck and lots of success!
Johannes Sachs wins Springer Dissertation Award
- 25 September 2021
Johannes' Ph.D. thesis "Motion, Symmetry & Spectroscopy of Chiral Nanostructures" has been awarded a Springer Dissertation Award. Congratulations!
Dr. Tingting Yu becomes Assistant Professor at the South China University of Technology
- 30 August 2021
Congrats and good luck to Dr. Tingting Yu
Congrats and good luck to Tingting Yu who recently obtained her Ph.D. in the group and who will start her own lab as an Assistant Professor in the Shien-Ming Wu School of Intelligent Engineering, South China University of Technology. Best of luck and lots of success!
Jan-Philipp Günther wins the Agnes Pockels Ph.D. Award
- 25 June 2021
Jan-Philipp Günther has won the 2021 Agnes Pockels Ph.D. Award, which is awarded annually by the German Bunsen Society for an outstanding doctoral thesis in the field of physical chemistry.
Best Oral Presentation
- 01 May 2021
Congratulations - Vincent Kadiri has won Best Oral Award for his talk entitled “Materials for Magnetically Actuated Micro- and Nanorobots” which he gave at the 2021 MRS Spring meeting. His presentation has been selected by the meeting chairs.
Eunjin Choi wins in "Science as Art" at the 2021 MRS Spring Meeting
- 22 April 2021
The depicted Art piece by Eunjin Choi is called "Snowman-village" and is based on an SEM image adapted from research published in ACS Nano “Arrays of plasmonic nanoparticle dimers with defined nanogap spacers”. It won 2nd place at this year's 2021 MRS Spring Meeting. More information can be found following the link provided by the MRS. Congratulations, Eunjin!
Vincent Kadiri receives Alfred Landecker Democracy Fellowship
- 01 March 2021
Vincent Mauricio Kadiri was recently selected as one of 30 rising activists, community leaders, and young professionals to join the Alfred Landecker Democracy Fellowship! The tagline guiding the Alfred Landecker Democracy Fellowship's inaugural cohort is "Reinventing Democratic Spaces in Times of COVID-19". It is funded through Humanity in Action in partnership with the Alfred Landecker Foundation. With the funding granted through the project, he will spend the coming months building a grassroots science communication network of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPoC) working in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). The name "Na’egbia Iyese" is Etsako and can be translated as „Good Morning Knowledge“. Through this initiative, he hopes to inspire especially Youth of Color to join academia and follow their passion for science by shining the spotlight on the kinds of diverse role models he and many other Scientists of Color often did not have growing up. The website and social media accounts were all launched recently, and if you have questions or want to join and/or support Na’egbia Iyese in any way, then please feel free to contact Vincent (https://naegbia-iyese.org/)! In addition he has received a Mercator Fellowship on International affairs which will allow him to investigate decolonial approaches to scientific collaboration and research. This prestigious program selects 25 young professionals and provides them with funding to work on a self-selected project in international organizations, NGOs, and think tanks for a year. Congratulations, Vincent.