Our doctoral researcher Sebastian Michler has been on several trips in recent months. On the one hand, he spent two weeks in Bergen, where he worked in in the Department of Biomedicine in the group of Petri Kursula. There he was able to gather a few new ideas for the continuation of his cooperation project about the modeling of human myelin and new knowledge about myelin research and protein purification.

Afterwards, he spent a few days at DESY Hamburg, a research center dedicated to basic scientific research and tasked with investigating the structure, dynamics, and function of matter.

Our doctoral researcher Anna Luisa Upterworth attended the 13th Triennial Congress of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists in Oslo.

There she had the opportunity to present her poster on the topic “Quantifying Mixing Dynamics via Configurational Entropy Measures.” The content focused on the approach of calculating entropy in a simulation time step from the atomic positions, with new results.

Renowned figures from the field of theoretical chemistry were also present and gave lectures. Luisa also took part in Young Watoc, where younger scientists gave lectures and there was a mix of plenary and parallel sessions.

Today, another round of the Children’s University took place at the University of Halle. Students from various schools were our guests. After an introductory lecture on the world of polymers by BEAM speaker Prof. Dariush Hinderberger, they were able to conduct their own experiments in several small groups. These included experiments with climbing water, rockets with effervescent tablets, paper flowers, and lava lamps.

A nitrogen rocket, launched by our doctoral researchers Sebastian Michler and Annika Blum, provided the grand finale.