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News

April 2019
David Toneian's PhD defense
David, the lord over our IT realm, has defended his thesis on Magnetically Functionalized Star Polymers and Polymer Melts in MPCD Simulations. We will dearly miss him (and his IT skills). The succession to our IT throne must be determined soon or chaos will reign in our group. We wish him all the best for his future endeavours and we will be happy if he visits sometime.
March 2019
Emanuela Bianchi starting her group
Emanuela Bianchi started her group at TU Wien funded by her START grant. Her first group members are Silvano Ferrari, a former group member of our group, and Carina Karner from the University of Vienna. See their group homepage for more information.
March 2019
Gaurav P. Shrivastav joins our group
Gaurav P. Shrivastav has joined our group. As a postdoctoral researcher Gaurav has been working at TU Berlin and HHU Düsseldorf. Welcome!
March 2019
Ralph Wanzenböck joins our group
Ralph Wanzenböck has joined our group to write his Master's thesis on self-assembly of ionic liquid crystals, where he is working together with Benedikt Hartl. Welcome!
January 2019
Andreas Zöttl joins our group
Andreas Zöttl has joined our group. As a postdoctoral researcher Andreas has been working at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute (ESI), the University of Oxford, and ESPCI Paris. Welcome!
August 2018
New PhD position available
The Soft Matter Theory group at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the TU Wien announces the opening of a three-years PhD position in Soft Matter Theory and calls for applications until September 15, 2018. See the official announcement for more details.
June 2018
Emanuela Bianchi awarded START grant
Emanuela was awarded the prestigious START grant. The START Programme targets outstanding young researchers of any discipline and aims to provide researchers with long-term and extensive financial security to plan their research and to build up their own research groups. Congratulations!
November 2017
Markus Weißenhofer receives his Master's degree
Markus has finished his thesis on Ordered structures formed by ultrasoft, anisometric particles and has passed his final exam. Congratulations!
March 2017
Susanne Wagner receives her Master's degree
Susanne has finished her thesis on Phase transitions of patchy colloids in two dimensions and has passed her final exam. Congratulations! She will continue her research in our group and pursue a PhD as a member of the Biointerface Doctoral School.
January 2017
Clemens Jochum joins our group
Clemens Jochum has joined our group to pursue a PhD. Welcome!
October 2016
Benedikt Hartl joins our group
Benedikt Hartl has joined our group to pursue a PhD. Welcome!
March 2016
Silvano Ferrari's PhD defense
Silvano has defended his thesis on Dynamic properties of inverse patchy colloids. We wish him all the best with his future endeavours and we are looking forward to his visits.
November 2015
David Toneian receives his Master's degree
David, the heir to our group's IT-throne, has finished his thesis on Multi-Particle Collision Dynamics and has passed his final exam. Congratulations! He will continue his research in our group and pursue a PhD.
October 2015
Moritz Antlanger's PhD defense
Moritz, the most talented of us (after Ulf), has defended his thesis on Ordered equilibrium structures in systems with long-range interactions. He will do well in whatever he decides to, and will be nice to the people around him!
June 2015
Monika Stipsitz receives her Master's degree
Monika has finished her thesis on Thermodynamic properties of particles with heterogeneously patterned surfaces and has passed her final exam. Congratulations!
January 2015
Dieter Schwanzer's PhD defense
Dieter, the heart, soul and technical factotum of the group, has defended his thesis on Static and dynamic properties of two-dimensional systems with competing interactions. We are happy that you finished, and sad because... what will we do without your guidance? Alles Gute!
January 2015
Benedikt Pesendorfer receives his Master's degree
Benedikt has finished his thesis on Shape and local order in dendritic systems and has passed his final exam. Congratulations!
December 2014
Marta Montes-Saralegui's PhD defense
Marta, the sunshine of our office, has defended her thesis on In- and out-of-equilibrium simulations of polymeric molecules at the monomeric and the coarse-grained level. Most people wouldn't even be able to remember such a long title! Well done and mucha suerte!
June 2014
Clara Abaurrea Velasco receives her Master's degree
Clara has finished her thesis on Effective potentials of DNA-stars and has passed her final exam. Congratulations!
April 2014
Ioannis Georgiou's PhD defense
Ioannis has defended his thesis on Simulations of Soft Matter Systems. Congratulations and good luck in your future steps, we will miss you around here!
September 2013
Clara Abaurrea joins the group
Clara Abaurrea, Erasmus student from the Univeristy of Zaragoza (Spain) has joined the group to do her Master Thesis. Welcome!
July 2013
Jan Kurzidim's PhD defense
Jan has defended his thesis on Glass Formation of Colloids in Porous Media and has been awarded Pass with Distinction. Congratulations!
April 2013
Ismene Kolovos recieves her Master's degree
Ismene has finished her thesis on Phase behaviour of a system of inverse patchy colloids: a simulation study and has passed her final exam. Congratulations!
April 2013
Cecilia Bores Quijano visits the group
Cecilia Bores Quijano, a PhD student from the group of Enrique Lomba at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid, will stay with us for three months. Welcome!
January 2013
Changes in the group
Silvano Ferrari has joined the group as a PhD student. Welcome! And after four years in the group doing his diploma thesis and PhD, Günther Doppelbauer has left us to move to the industry. We wish him all the best!
November 2012
Sabine Klapp visits the group
Sabine Klapp from the Technische Universität Berlin will be an invited guest professor, giving a lecture on the Dynamics of Soft Matter Systems. Welcome!
September 2012
Ismene Kolovos joins the group
Ismene, who has already done a student project in the group, will be preparing her Master's thesis in the next months.
August 2012
Günther Doppelbauer's PhD defense
Günther has defended his thesis on Ordered Equilibrium Structures of Patchy Particles Systems and was awarded Pass with Distinction. Congratulations!
August 2012
Arash Nikoubashman leaves the group
After two years in the group, Arash leaves us to start his post-doc at Princeton University. We wish him all the best!
July 2012
Arash Nikoubashman's PhD defense
Arash has defended his thesis on Non-Equilibrium Computer Experiments of Soft Matter Systems and has been awarded Pass with Distinction. Congratulations!
June 2012
Moritz Antlanger receives his Master's degree
Moritz has finished his thesis on Ordered equilibrium structures in confined dipolar systems and has passed his final exam. Congratulations!
February 2012
Our Website has moved
We have moved our website to a new server (from tph.tuwien.ac.at/smt to smt.tuwien.ac.at). Automatic redirection should make the change as smooth as possible, but if you have any direct bookmarks to subpages of our site, please update them.
September 2011
New Members
Ulf Pedersen has joined our group as a post-doc after working at UC Berkeley for two years. Marta Montes has finished her master's thesis and will start working as a PhD student in the group after a short break. Moritz Antlanger, who has already completed an extensive student project in our group, will start working on his master's thesis this autumn.
August 2011
Press releases
Two group members were recently featured on the webpage of our university: both Emanuela's review article on patchy colloids (link [German only]) and Arash's PRL on cluster crystals under shear (link) were covered in the news section.
October 2010
Two new Members
Our offices are getting quite crowded again: Marta Montes, who is on an Erasmus stay at the Vienna University of Technology, has joined our group as a Master student. Also, Giannis Georgiou has arrived to take our second COMPLOIDS PhD position.
September 2010
Daniele Coslovich leaves us
After having spent two and a half years as a post-doc in our group, Daniele is leaving us to take a permanent position at Université Montpellier 2. We wish you all the best!
August 2010
New group member: Arash Nikoubashman
Arash, coming from Düsseldorf as well, has taken a COMPLOIDS PhD position in our group. Welcome!
August 2010
Emanuela Bianchi re-joins our group
After having worked with Christos Likos in Düsseldorf for one year, Emanuela has re-joined our group as a Lise Meitner fellow.
June 2010
JPCM highlights 2009
Recent work by Gerhard Kahl and Hartmut Löwen on density functional theory was featured in the Highlight Papers 2009 of the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter.
March 2010
Diploma Examination Camille Jouvie
Camille has finished her Diploma thesis and has passed her final exam. Congratulations!
11-14 January 2010
Krakoviack visit
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".
November 2009
Diploma Examination Lukas Strauss
Lukas has finished his Diploma thesis and has passed his final exam. Congratulations!
9-13 November 2009
Ziherl visit
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".
21 October 2009
Press release
Recent work by our group was featured in a press release by the Vienna University of Technology.
22 July 2009
Visit and seminar by Laura Filion
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".
4 March 2009
Promotio sub Auspiciis
Gernot Pauschenwein officially received his Ph.D. "sub Auspiciis Presidentis Rei Publicae" for his outstanding scientific career.
2 March 2009
Bianchi joined our group
Emanuela Bianchi from the University of Rome joined our group as a post-doc with an ESI Junior Research Fellowship.
17 December 2008
Ph.D. defense
Julia Fornleitner defended her Ph.D. thesis entitled "Ordered equilibrium structrures of two-dimensional soft matter systems".
30 October-5 November 2008
Dorsaz visit
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".
22 October 2008
Ph.D. defense
Gernot Pauschenwein defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Phase behaviour of colloidal systems".
13-18 October 2008
Kočevar visit
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".
10 October 2008
New computational resources
Twelve new quad-core Intel machines (total: 48 cores) were installed in our cluster.
8 October 2008
Press release
Recent work by our group was featured in a press release of the Austrian newspaper "Die Presse".
29 September 2008
Press release
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).