WIMA 2024

WIMA 2024

Finalists

  • Erica Del Grosso
    Interactive Supramolecular DNA-based nanomaterials
  • 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
  • Maria Villiou
    Innovative Biomaterials for Diverse Biomedical Solutions
  • Viktorija Glembockyte (Winner)
    Nanoscale tools for sensing single molecules

Jury

  • Petra Severit
  • Katharina Maniura
  • Carla Ferndandez Rico
  • Laura De Laporte
WIMA 2023

WIMA 2023

Finalists

  • Fan Xu
    From Responsive Supramolecular Polymers to Interactive Materials
  •  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

Jury

  • Petra Severit
  • Luisa De Cola
  • Laura Heinen
  • Laura De Laporte
WIMA 2022

WIMA 2022

Finalists

  • 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

Jury

  • Petra Severit
  • Rachel O‘Reilly
  • Kerstin Göpfrich
  • Laura De Laporte
WIMA 2021 (Virtual Event)

WIMA 2021 (Virtual Event)

Finalists

  • 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

Jury

  • Petra Severit
  • Karen Wooley
  • Laura De Laporte