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!

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!

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.

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

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.