News and press

News, Our group in the press

Our group in the press

Our research has appeared in a more popular form in various sources:

- Interview by Uta Deffke in Max Planck Forschung nr 4, 2009, "Tiefgang an Oberflächen (in German)"

- Der Seife aus den Leim gegangen (19/02/2010)

-- See the Max-Planck press release

-- The online chemistry journal Chemie.de

-- The portal for organic chemistry Organische-chemie.ch

-- The technology bulletin Technologiewerte.de

- Interview by Dirk Vogel (04/2008) at the website, "Young Germany"

- Interview by R. Warth, Moleküle im licht, Stuttgarter Zeitung 51, (2008), 8

- How hairy colloids form sticky gels (09/2006)

-- See the Max-Planck press release

-- The online chemistry journal Chemie.de

-- and the Dutch Kennislink website

- Deutsche Welle broadcasts Tomorrow Today (06/2006) featuring our group in the theme 'Brilliant Minds', see the movie here

- Interview by G. J. de Vries for: "Verwondering, wetenschap in Nederland", Boom Amsterdam (2006), 46-47, ISBN: 90-8506-352-3.

News

Oct 2009

Sylvie Roke was awarded an ERC startup grant within the seventh framework programme for her proposal 'Molecular Interfacial structure and dynamics of Nanoscopic droplets in Emulsions (MINE)'


Oct 2008

Hilton de Aguiar has won a young researcher's prize at the AVS conference in Boston.

The German Research Foundation DFG awarded us with a Research Grant (‘Einzelförderung’) for a 3 year Post-Doc position on 'The theoretical description of nonlinear optical scattering processes from single particles and collections of particles'.


June 2008

Matthew Strader has obtained an Alexander von Humboldt stipend.

Jan 2008

The German physical society has awarded the Hertha-Sponer preis 2008 to Sylvie Roke

May 2007

Magnus Johnson has received the Morris Cohen Award 2007. This is an international award from the American Electrochemical Society for the best Ph.D. thesis in the field of Corrosion Science.

Apr 2007

Magnus Johnson has received the Ingvar Carlsson Award 2007. This is an award from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research for postdocs returning to Sweden.

Jan 2007

The (Dutch) glossy magazine BLVD has published again a list of 100 promising women for the year 2007 . The list contains 6 scientists. Sylvie Roke is one of them. BLVD wrote: "Roke is de onbetwiste leider van het onderzoek, zo kwalificeerde de jury van de Minerva Prijs 2006 haar. De jury koos haar onderzoeksartikel over oppervlakte moleculen unaniem uit 28 inzendingen. Natuurkunde zit in haar bloed. “Ik begon de exacte vakken pas leuk te vinden toen ik op mijn zestiende ontdekte dat ik er enig talent voor had.” Enig talent is een understatement voor een onderzoeker als Roke. Ze completeerde de studies natuurkunde en scheikunde tegelijkertijd cum laude, promoveerde vervolgens ook met de hoogste honours en kreeg subsidie om in het Duitse Stuttgart een independent junior research team op te starten. Daar onderzoekt ze de structuur van melkzuurdeeltjes, die weer gebruikt kunnen worden als medicijn tegen leverkanker." BLVD

27 Oct 2006

Minerva prize 2006 awarded to Sylvie Roke. The Award was handed out by M.I. Hamer, member of the Dutch parliament.
Source: Ton Minnen, NFP

13 April 2006

Sylvie Roke has won the Minerva Prize 2006. The Minerva Prize is awarded every two year for the best scientific publication by a Dutch female writer on a physics topic. This was announced by the Dutch Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter, FOM. The winning publication was chosen unanimously out of 28 submissions. For more information, see the FOM website, www.fom.nl.

6 April 2006

Albert Sugiharto has been awarded a place at the international Max Planck Research School. The International Max Planck Research School for Advanced Materials (IMPRS-AM, www.imprs_am.mpg.de) has been established in 2001 as an international graduate school with a PhD training program in Advanced Materials. The school is a co-operation of the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research (MPI-MF), the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (MPI-FKF), and the University of Stuttgart(Chemistry and Physics faculties)

10 March 2006

Magnus Johnson has obtained an Alexander von Humboldt stipend, to perform research in Germany for a year.