Josh has been involved in work on face masks, which has been featured in an article by "The Guardian"!
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Efficiency of face masks
Research highlight: Modeling C60 on dielectric substrates
Congratulations to William for his excellent work on structure formation of C60 molecules on dielectric substrates that has appeared in The Journal of Chemical Physics (link), and for scoring the cover!
The 2020 motile active matter roadmap
Big overview article on the current state of active matter now published! Read the article here.
New DFG Research Training Group in Soft Matter
DFG to sponsor a new Research Training Group in physics and chemistry. Cooperation between Mainz University, TU Darmstadt, and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research. Read the full press release.
PhD opportunities in computational sciences
Interested in a PhD in a truly interdisciplinary environment? The call is now out for 7 computational projects within the newly founded profile area M3ODEL. Our aim is to leverage synergies between natural sciences (physics, atmospheric sciences, geosciences, biology, etc.) and mathematics and computer science to advance multiscale modeling.
Fabian wins price for his thesis
Fabian has been awarded the "Forschungsförderpreis der Freunde der Universität Mainz e.V." (see here for information and a brochure). Congratulations!
Poster price for Fabian
Fabian has won an EPL Poster Award from the DPG Biological Physics Division for his poster presented at the DPG Spring Meeting 2017 in Dresden. Congratulations!
Special issue on local structure
The first papers for the special issue on "The Role of Structure in Glassy and Jammed Systems" in JSTAT are out, see here for the list of papers. More to come!