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November 2023

Paper Accepted by IEEE!

Our group's publication in partnership with the research group of Prof. Dr. Jasmin Aghassi-Hagmann has been accepted.
The paper titled “Direct Writing of Liquid Metal Microheaters for Microvalve Applications” can found here. It talks about direct writing of liquid metal (LM) based microheaters for microvalve applications based on thermo-responsive polymers.
Prof. Dr. Jasmin Aghassi-Hagmann is based at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology(KIT). Prof. Aghassi-Hagmann is also a member of the Cluster of Excellence 3DMM2O.

October 2023

Congratulations to Yasmin Antonelli

PhD student Yasmin Antonelli from our group has been awarded the Young researcher fellowship: Crossborder mobility grant by Cancéropôle Est.
With this grant she will be working on the project Artificial Tumors: Influence of Confinement and Mechanical Properties in Cancer Cells Malignancy and Resistance. She will be hosted by the Institut de cancérologie Strasbourg Europe (ICANS) and will work closely with Dr. Alexandre Detappe's team in Starsbourg, France.

August 2023

New Publication in IEEE!

New publication in partnership with the research group of Prof. Dr. Jasmin Aghassi-Hagmann at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology(KIT). Prof. Aghassi-Hagmann is also a member of the Cluster of Excellence 3DMM2O.
The paper titled “Direct Writing of Liquid Metal Microheaters for Microvalve Applications” can found here. It talks about direct writing of liquid metal (LM) based microheaters for microvalve applications based on thermo-responsive polymers.

June 2023

Welcome to a new exchange student from the US

Wesley Shih has just joined the group from the US as a DAAD RISE intern. Wesley will be working on cellular adhesion using atomic force microscopy (AFM) this summer.

Another publication for the group in Advanced Functional Materials!

Congratulations to group members and co-authors, Reza Taale, Barbara Schamberger, Fereydoon Taheri, Yasmin Antonelli, Aldo Leal-Egana and Christine Selhuber-Unkel for their recent publication entitled "In situ fabrication of constraints for multicellular microspheroids using two photon lithography"!

May 2023

Publication: “Engineered Living Carbon Materials”

In collaboration with other members of the 3DMM2O cluster, we are happy to announce another publication, "Engineered Living Carbon Materials"! We are grateful to be part of such a dynamic research environment and look forward to future work to support the goals of 3DMM2O.

April 2023

FI EMS COLLOQUIUM

The FI EMS colloquium presents external and internal speakers in the field of “Engineering Molecular Systems” once a month on Mondays. The colloquium takes place either via zoom or in person, depending on the location of the speaker. Please register for the Zoom Meetings using the links in the respective row. Link

WELCOME TO A NEW PHD STUDENT!

Ms. Annabelle Sonn has just joined the group as a PhD student. Annabelle will be working on a project related to Perpharmance, a regional effort to combine the fields of personalized medicine with organoid research. Welcome Annabelle!

March 2023

WELCOME TO A NEW RESEARCH ASSOCIATE!

Mr. Miguel Juarez Estrada, M.Sc. has just joined the group. Miguel brings a background in materials science and semiconductor design to his work here. His project focuses on developing materials to support injury. The project is also a collaboration with some of our partners in private industry.

01.03.2023

Ms. Chantal Barwig just joined the group as a PhD student. Her project involves an investigation of soft and responsive microactuator systems based on 3D laser-printed hydrogels.

December 2022

Congratulations to group member Tobias Spratte for winning an award for giving the best presentation! The prize was awarded at the 5th International Conference on Soft Materials (ICSM 2022) in Jaipur, India.

November 2022

WELCOME OUR NEW PHD STUDENT!

Zeynab Tavasolyzadeh recently joined the group as a first year PhD student. Her project will focus on 2-photon polymerization techniques in 3D printing. Welcome Zeynab!

October 2022

WELCOME TO A NEW POST-DOC!

Dr. Wang Zhe, who previously worked at NUS in Singapore has just joined the group. He will work on setting up a nonlinear optical device.

A NEW POSTDOC HAS JUST JOINED!

Welcome our new postdoc, Barbara Schamberger. Barbara just earned her PhD from the University of Salzburg, where she studied the influence of surface geometry on tissue growth in the Mophophysics group. Her role here in the group will be to study the interaction of biological materials with 3D printed structures.

CONFERENCE: MOLECULAR SYSTEMS ENGINEERING FOR BIOAPPLICATIONS (MSEB)

Click this link and learn more about our group's recent conference!

August 2022

PHD DEFENDED!

Congratulations to our latest group member to earn her PhD! Last week, Qiyang Jiang successfully defended her thesis entitled "Two-photon sensitive biomaterials for dynamic control of cellular microenvironments"!

July 2022

UNI HEIDELBERG's FIRST DR.-ING.!

Congratulations to our latest group member to earn her PhD! Earlier today, Christine Arndt successfully defended her thesis entitled "Microengineered Conductive Scaffolds for Cell-Based Actuation"!
Ms. Arndt was the first student to obtain the honorific Dr.-Ing. from Heidelberg University!

June 2022

PROF. DR. CHRISTINE SELHUBER-UNKEL WAS INTERVIEWED BY THE LIFE IN SCIENCE PODCAST!

Our group's principal investigator, Prof. Dr. Christine Selhuber-Unkel recently granted an interview to The Life in Science Podcast. There she discussed her journey in science, as well as a range of topics relevant to the group's work. Click here to follow to link to Spotify and listen to the interview!

Group member Sandra Sindt recently defended her thesis and is now officially "Dr.-Ing. Sandra Sindt"! Her thesis is entitled, "Cells as Living Materials: Force Spectroscopic Investigation of Mechanotransduction". Congratulations Sandra!