Sophia Simon is a bachelor student at the Freie Universität of Berlin. She will do her summer internship at the Soft Matter Lab from July 21 to September 27, 2019, with a grant from DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst). She will work on the tunability of critical Casimir forces in critical mixtures.
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Falko Schmidt attends the 69th Lindau Nobel laureate meeting
Picture/Credit: Julia Nimke/Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings
Falko Schmidt, and Jalpa Soni have been selected to attain the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting in Lindau, Germany from the 30th June till 5th July 2019.
The Lindau meeting is a platform where 600 young scientists around the world meet former Nobel laureates (as well as Turing-award winners). There they can exchange scientific ideas and experiences, inspire each other and connect for a more interdisciplinary scientific community. These are the three incentives that make this meeting a unique experience.
Falko Schmidt had the privilege to attend it and shares the following insight:
“For me, the Lindau meeting was a unique experience where I was able to meet peers across many disciplines, share ideas and experiences beyond my field of active matter and received much feedback on career choices and daily life as a PhD. Especially fruitful were the many possibilities to engage with senior scientists such as the Nobel laureates which with their humour, insight and advice deepened my passion about science. Personally, I would consider my best encounters with Steven Chu and William Phillips (Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997 on laser cooling), Donna Strickland (Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018 on ultra-fast lasers), and Stefan Hell (Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014 on super-resolution microscopy). I am very grateful for the possibility of attending this meeting and would like to thank the Lindau Nobel committee and Söderbergs Foundation who were selecting and sponsoring me.
From now on, in times of struggle, I will always look back to this meeting and remember why we all love doing science.”
Quentin Pikeroen visits the Soft Matter Lab. Welcome!
Quentin Pikeroen is visiting from École Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon from 13th May until 2nd August 2019.
Quentin Pikeroen has a Bachelor’s degree in general physics at the ENS de Lyon and he is enrolled in the first year of master degree in general physics at the ENS de Lyon.
Daniel Midtvedt joins the Soft Matter Lab
Daniel Midtvedt joined the Soft Matter Lab on 13 April 2019.
Adrian Leidegren joins the Soft Matter Lab
Adrian Leidegren joined the Soft Matter Lab on 21 January 2019.
Adrian Leidegren is a Master student in the Physics Master at the University of Gothenburg.
He will work on his Master thesis on the study of neural networks.
Thomas Suphona joins the Soft Matter Lab
Thomas Suphona joined the Soft Matter Lab on 21 January 2019.
Thomas Suphona is a Master student in the Complex Adaptive Systems Master at Chalmers University of Technology.
He will work on his Master thesis on the study of collective behaviors in groups of phototactic robots.
Martin Selin joins the Soft Matter Lab
Martin Selin joined the Soft Matter Lab on 21 January 2019.
Martin Selin is a Master student in the Complex Adaptive Systems Master at Chalmers University of Technology.
He will work on his Master thesis on the development of novel approaches to the training of neural networks.
Theo Berglin joins the Soft Matter Lab
Theo Berglin joined the Soft Matter Lab on 21 January 2019.
Theo Berglin is a Master student in the Complex Adaptive Systems Master at Chalmers University of Technology.
He will work on his Master thesis on the development of Braph, the software for brain connector analysis developed by the Soft Matter Lab in collaboration with Karolinska Institutet.
Adam Liberda joins the Soft Matter Lab
Adam Liberda joined the Soft Matter Lab on 21 January 2019.
Adam Liberda is a Master student in the Complex Adaptive Systems Master at Chalmers University of Technology.
He will work on his Master thesis on the development of Braph, the software for brain connector analysis developed by the Soft Matter Lab in collaboration with Karolinska Institutet.
Jalpa Soni is MSCA Fellow of the Week
Our Marie-Curie postdoctoral researcher Jalpa Soni becomes the #MSCA Fellow of the Week, and gets her project highlighted on Tweeter and Facebook pages of the Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Jalpa is studying the behaviour of micro swimmers like bacteria in 3D complex environments. That will give us the understanding of how they propagate in living systems, which in turn will be used to manipulate them for medicinal advantages.One such example would be to create artificial swimmers (active particles) mimicking natural bacteria for more efficient and targeted drug-delivery applications.To monitor the movement of such micro swimmers in 3D, Jalpa has developed a customised light-sheet microscope that is capable of fast volumetric imaging. The long term goal of the project is to create active particle induced drug-delivery methods for organ-on-chip devices and to monitor the drug efficacy in real time.
This is Jalpa’s insight as a MSCA fellow:
“The unique opportunity to build a new collaborative network has been the most beneficial aspect of my MSCA fellowship. The travels for the project has allowed me to experience different research organisations and to meet experts of various fields which is very important for interdisciplinary research that I love doing.”
Project Name: ActiveMotion3D – Experimental study of three-dimensional dynamics of Active particles
Learn more about Jalpa and her project:
CORDIS: https://bit.ly/2Rz1rVD
Tweeter: https://twitter.com/MSCActions/status/1070985015754919936
FB: https://www.facebook.com/135877696485772/posts/2441038415969677/ …