Previous WIMA Events

Anna Puiggali Jou, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
The space between: How architected voids promote tissue formation

Brigitta Dúzs, Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany (Laureate)
Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics for Adaptive Information-Processing Soft Matter

Elena Cambria, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (Laureate)
Biomaterials and vascularized organson-chip for personalized models of metastasis

Isabella Fiorello, University of Freiburg, Germany
Biohybrid Evolution: Engineering Plant-inspired Microfabricated Materials

Laura Rijns, Stanford University, USA (Winner)
Controlling cell-material interactions using chemistry, electronics and optogenetics: from growing tissue towards treating neural diseases

Andreia Trinidade Pereira
Energizing the Future: Using Body Energy to Power Smart Medical Devices

Giulia Lavarda (Laureate)
Novel Approaches in Photoactive materials: Advancing (Supra)molecular Design for Energy Conversion

Céline Calvino (Laureate)
Transforming Responsiveness into Sustainability: The New Age of Polymers

Ana Mora Boza
Engineering in vitro microenvironments with synthetic polymers
Ceren Kimna
Redefining boundaries in healthcare through dynamic materials
Carla Ferndandez Rico (Winner)
Elastic Microphase Separation Produces Bicontinuous Structures for Sustainable Applications

Christina Tringides (Laureate)
Designing multifunctional hydrogels for improved neural interfaces: from physiological models to implantable devices
Hatice Ceren Ates (Laureate)
Biosensors toward smart therapeutic drug management of antibiotics

Eva Bertosin (Laureate)
DNA origami, proteins and lipids: Successful combo to rebuild cellular systems from scratch
Hailin Fu (Laureate)
A peek into life’s secret: Structured molecules and liquids from the bottom up
Laura Heinen (Winner)
Sustained ATP-Feed across membranes: A platform technology for fueling synthetic cells and biomimetic nanoreactors
Ji-Young Kim
Chiral nanomaterial based high throughput platforms: Leveraging asymmetric light-matter interaction for chiral photosynthesis and bioanalytical chemistry

Jovana Milić
Supramolecular control of hybrid materials for smart energy conversion
Casey Platnich
One-by-one: Advancing DNA nanotechnology using single-molecule techniques

Yimin Luo
High throughput microscopy: path to rapid phase diagram mapping and formulations

Kerstin Göpfrich (Winner)
Synthetic cells: Bringing materials to life?
Ambika Somasundar
Enzyme-Coated Liposomes as Self-Propulsive Motors
Ulrike Kraft
Small, but highly effective: Functional molecules take on key roles in polymer devices
Jinghui Liu (Laureate)
Topological defects and information flows on the membrane of a living cell
Shikha Dhiman (Laureate)
Nature through a chemist’s lens