Kerstin Blank

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!

08.10.2025 06:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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...

14.09.2025 07:21 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

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!

02.09.2025 08:13 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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!

25.08.2025 19:05 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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! 🎉

26.06.2025 06:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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.

25.06.2025 14:39 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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...

20.06.2025 08:43 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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

12.05.2025 09:37 — 👍 11    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

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

12.05.2025 09:37 — 👍 11    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

Precall: Four tenure-track professorships

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

07.04.2025 06:51 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

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...

31.03.2025 16:32 — 👍 42    🔁 29    💬 2    📌 0

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.

24.03.2025 09:45 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0