Two more awards for Laura Wolfthaler 🎉 Her MSc thesis on #plasticdegradation with #enzymes earned her the Wilhelm Macke Prize #Physics @jku.at, and her presentation for ~200 high school students won the Award for #ScienceCommunication. Congrats to Laura and her little plastic-eating monster PETra!

Imagine starting a project in an empty lab and ending up with an award 🏆! We are incredibly proud of Laura Wolfthaler for winning the #YoungMindsAward of the #AustrianPhysicalSociety with her MSc thesis on enzymatic #PETdegradation. 🎥 Watch her award-winning video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdOE...

Applications of #Mechanochemistry in macromolecular systems keep growing. Our @rscmechanochem.rsc.org editorial with @goestlich.bsky.social explores self-healing, optical force probes, mechanoresponsive biomolecules and biomedical applications. Check out doi.org/10.1039/D5MR... and submit your work!

Two amazing young women spent their school holidays in our lab @jku.at. From pipetting basics to real #biophyics research... watching them grow was inspiring. Thank you Austrian Research Promotion Agency #FFG for making this possible. Mentoring #NextGenScientists reminds us why we love #science!

Delighted this paper is out. We explored how different methods provide insight into the mechanical properties of E. coli 🦠🧫 biofilms. As always, it was great fun to collaborate with the group of @cmbidan.bsky.social Big congrats to all involved! 🎉

Congrats to the ConForce-25 forcespectroscopy.in #posterprize winners Sanket Jugade and Bishakha Ray. Thank you @rscmechanochem.rsc.org for sponsoring the prize! I really enjoyed excellent Indian science, great discussions, food and the monsoon at Casuarina Resort in the Western Ghats close to Pune.

Announcing an open call for our Mechanoluminescence themed collection in Journal of Materials Chemistry C and RSC Mechanochemistry (@rscmechanochem.rsc.org‬), guest edited by Robert Göstl, Wai-Yeung Wong and Xinxing Zhang. Read more about the themed collection: blogs.rsc.org/jm/2025/06/1...

We have a @fwf-at.bsky.social doc.funds PhD position @jku.at! Join us to study how cells sense forces and develop molecular force sensors. Apply by May 31, 2025. For details and instructions go to www.jku.at/en/institute... #PhDposition #Biophysics #Mechanobiology #CellMechanics #AcademicJobs

We have a @fwf-at.bsky.social doc.funds PhD position @jku.at! Join us to study how cells sense forces and develop molecular force sensors. Apply by May 31, 2025. For details and instructions go to www.jku.at/en/institute... #PhDposition #Biophysics #Mechanobiology #CellMechanics #AcademicJobs

Four Tenure-track positions in AI exclusively for female applicants at @jkulinz.bsky.social! Details available soon at www.jku.at/en/lit-artif...

Registration has started for the conference "Emerging Trends in the Physics of the Cell" in memoriam of Erich Sackmann at TU Munich from October 15-18 2025 www.cpa.tum.de/cpa/conferen...

It has been a great week at the #DPGR25 Spring Meeting, filled with exciting presentations and posters. I am thrilled to congratulate our #BiologicalPhysics poster prize winners Severin Angerpointner @physicsoflifelmu.bsky.social, Bob Fregin (Oliver Otto lab) and Dorian Marx @betzlab.bsky.social.