Professor Thomas Voigtmann – Non-Equilibrium Materials: Bridging a Gap in Understanding Measuring the mechanical properties of different materials by analysing their behaviour is a familiar task to many scientists and engineers. Yet for some more unusual...
SFB 1027 – Cell Physics: Understanding How Biological Matter Self-Organises The Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1027 at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken and Homburg is an interdisciplinary research team that aims to achieve a quantitative understanding...
Dr Albert Guskov – Metal Transport Unlocks Routes to New Antibiotics Metals have been improving our lives since the bronze age, but they also play a key role in keeping us healthy. We rely on numerous metals, such as cobalt, zinc and magnesium (among others), to...
Professor Romano Orru – Cheap and Eco-friendly Drug Synthesis using Biocatalysis and One-Pot Processes Developing more efficient techniques for synthesising complex drug molecules is a painstaking process. However, this is something that Dr Romano Orru of Vrije...
Dr Uli Klein – Supernova-accelerated Electrons to Dark Matter: A Career in Radio Astronomy Considering we didn’t know of their existence just a century ago, our current knowledge of the structures and dynamics of galaxies is extraordinarily impressive. Among...
Dr Simon Friederich – A Rare Universe? The Multiverse Debate Through the Lens of Philosophy How did we get here? How could a universe with such simple physical laws have created something as complex as us? These questions are so fundamental that even after...
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