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06-14-2021 EcoBus is picking up speed
The newly founded company EcoBus GmbH is developing software infrastructure that combines shuttle services and regular bus services to provide a sustainable public transport solution more
02-01-2021 Corinna C. Maass becomes Associate Professor at University of Twente

02-01-2021 Corinna C. Maass becomes Associate Professor at University of Twente

Our group leader Corinna C. Maass joined the Physics of Fluids group at the University of Twente (the Netherlands) as an associate professor. Corinna’s research still focuses on active fluid dynamics, specifically on self-propelling droplets as microswimmer model systems.
01-19-2021 Babak Vajdi Hokmabad successfully defended his PhD thesis 

01-19-2021 Babak Vajdi Hokmabad successfully defended his PhD thesis
 

With the talk "Active Emulsions: Physiochemical Hydrodynamics and Collective Behavior" Babak Vajdi Hokmabad successfully defended his PhD thesis today, which he prepared in the group of Corinna Maass. Due to the prescribed contact restrictions, audience members were able to follow the defense as a videoconference. We congratulate him cordially!
12-10-2020 Dr. Steffen Mühle receives Jan-Peter-Toennies Prize 2020

12-10-2020 Dr. Steffen Mühle receives Jan-Peter-Toennies Prize 2020

This year's Jan Peter Toennies Prize in the amount of 1000 € is awarded by the Faculty of Physics of the University of Göttingen to Dr. Steffen Mühle for his outstanding doctoral thesis. "We have developed a method that allows the quantitative determination of mechanical and hydrodynamic properties of individual proteins and their amino acids. Using modern fluorescence microscopy, we measured the nanoscale dynamics of disordered proteins experimentally, and efficiently interpreted the measured data by combining polymer theory and physical simulations. In addition to the above-mentioned material properties, new insights into the motional sequences of the few nanometer long molecule could be gained. In the future, proteins can thus be systematically investigated physically from new perspectives, which contributes to understanding biological processes on the nanoscale," says Steffen Mühle.
09-15-2020 Göttinger Tageblatt: Göttingen researchers reveal crucial functions of green algae
Biofuel, drug substance or glue: green algae are a promising model organism. A research team at the MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization has deciphered interesting properties of the small unicellular organism (article in German). more
07-01-2020 Oliver Bäumchen accepts a call to the University of Bayreuth

07-01-2020 Oliver Bäumchen accepts a call to the University of Bayreuth

Our group leader Oliver Bäumchen has accepted a call to the University of Bayreuth for a W3 professorship in experimental physics and has been appointed university professor as of October 1, 2020. With his group "Dynamics of fluid and biological interfaces" (https://www.ds.mpg.de/en/dcf/baeumchen) he has investigated the physical properties of motile cells in detail in recent years and has discovered novel, previously unknown effects especially in the microalgae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. We congratulate Oliver on his new position!
05-31-2020 I'm the bus stop - Report on the EcoBus by Stephan Herminghaus published in the highlights of the annual report of the MPG
Imagine a bus picking you up right where you are and taking you to your desired destination. What sounds elaborate and uneconomical is achieved by the EcoBus ride-pooling system, which we developed in theory. In the meantime, it has also proven itself in initial practical tests and could thus help to solve our mobility problems (article in German). more
20-05-19 Max Planck Partner Group in India extended

20-05-19 Max Planck Partner Group in India extended

The Max Planck Partner Group of our alumni doctoral candidate Shashi Thutupalli has been extended for another 2 years. The cooperation with the Indian National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore on the functionality of biological cells, which has been successful since 2017, is supported by the Max Planck Society until March 2022.
20-04-13 "Flexa for Heroes" starts in Leipzig

20-04-13 "Flexa for Heroes" starts in Leipzig

Flexa in Leipzig, the intermodal ride-pooling service with four minibuses, is currently a problematic concept due to contact restrictions. Since April, Flexa has therefore only been operating for hospital staff, but with a greatly expanded fleet (up to 19 vehicles) and throughout the entire Leipzig city area. This transport service, which was set up for the Corona period and mainly serves the night hours when no other public transport is operating, is appropriately named "Flexa for Heroes".
20-03-23 Otto Hahn Medal 2020 for Fabian Jan Schwarzendahl

20-03-23 Otto Hahn Medal 2020 for Fabian Jan Schwarzendahl

Congratulations to Fabian Schwarzendahl on the award of the Otto Hahn Medal 2020, which will be presented in recognition of his outstanding scientific achievements in the field of "Collective microswimmer motility in complex environments".
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