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Ulf Pedersen recently joined our group as a postdoc, after working at UC Berkeley for two years. Marta Montes finished her master thesis and will start working as a PhD student in the group after a short break. Moritz Antlanger, who already completed an extensive student project in our group, will start working on his master thesis this autumn.
Two group members were recently featured on the webpage of our university: Emanuela's review article on patchy colloids (link [German only]) and Arash's PRL on cluster crystals under shear (link) were both covered in the news section.
Our offices are getting quite crowded again: Marta Montes, who is on an Erasmus stay at the Vienna University of Technology, joined our group as a Master student. Also, Giannis Georgiou recently arrived to take our second COMPLOIDS PhD position.
After spending two and a half years as a postdoc in our group, Daniele is leaving us to take his new permanent position at Université Montpellier 2. We wish Daniele all the best; we will miss him around here.
Recently, Arash, coming from Düsseldorf as well, has taken a COMPLOIDS PhD position in our group. Welcome to Vienna!
We are very happy that Emanuela is joining us again. After working with Christos Likos in Düsseldorf for one year, she is now starting her Lise Meitner Fellowship in Vienna.
Recent work by Gerhard Kahl and Hartmut Loewen on density functional theory was featured in the Highlight Papers 2009 of the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter.
Camille recently finished her Diploma thesis and passed the final exam. Congratulations!
Vincent Krakoviack from the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon (France) visited our group and gave a talk on "Slow dynamics in confinement: A mode coupling approach".
Lukas has finished his Diploma thesis and passed his exam. Congratulations!
Primoz Ziherl from the Jožef Stefan Institute of Ljubljana (Slovenia) visited our group and gave a talk on "Morphometry and structure of natural random tilings".
Recent work by our group was featured in a press release by the Vienna University of Technology.
Laura Filion from the Utrecht University (The Netherlands) visited our group and gave a seminar about "Prediction and stability analysis of binary hard-sphere crystal structures".
Gernot Pauschenwein officially received his Ph.D. "sub Auspiciis Presidentis Rei Publicae" for his outstanding scientific career.
Emanuela Bianchi from the University of Rome joined our group as a Post-Doc with an ESI Junior Research Fellowship.
Julia Fornleitner defended her Ph.D. thesis entitled "Ordered equilibrium structrures of two-dimensional soft matter systems".
Nicolas Dorsaz from the Institut Romand de Recherche Numerique en Physique des Materiaux, EPFL (Switzerland) visited our group and gave a talk on "Phase transitions and aggregation in eye lens proteins: relevance to cataract disease".
Gernot Pauschenwein defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Phase behaviour of colloidal systems".
Ana Kočevar from the Jožef Stefan Institute of Ljubljana (Slovenia) visited our group and gave a talk on "Degenerate polygonal tilings in simple animal tissues".
Twelve new quad-core Intel machines (total: 48 cores) were installed in our cluster.
Recent work by our group was featured in a press release of the Austrian newspaper "Die Presse".
Press release of the Vienna University of Technology on the work by Julia Fornleitner and Gerhard Kahl in cooperation with Christos Likos (Duesseldorf, Germany) and Federica Lo Verso (Geneve, Switzerland).