Year: 2022

Congratulations to ESR 1 Udara Bimendra Gunatilake for the  publication of an article, that obtained the Back Cover published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A showcasing research from the Microfluidics Cluster UPV/EHU, a group led by Profs. Fernando Benito-Lopez and Lourdes Basabe-Desmonts, University of the Basque Country, Spain.

Thanks to ESR 6 (Aigars Langins) interest in the mathematics of pandemic dynamics, including differential equations, and a mutual interest with an epidemiologist Ņikita Trojanskis, a recent graduate of the University of Cambridge, a data driven prediction of pandemic dynamics in Latvia was introduced, mostly developed by Ņikita and Aigars, and used by the Ministry of Health to argue on political decisions to be taken by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Latvia.  This included a political decision of announcing a statewide lockdown of 3 weeks in Autumn 2021, which broke the Covid-19 Delta variant transmission and decreased the number of casualties and hospital overload. About this several media reports are given, including articles in Journal IR (https://ir.lv/2021/10/13/cik-laut-nomirt/ , https://ir.lv/2021/12/23/nikita-trojanskis-ir-divaina-krizes-komunikacija-no-valsts-puses/), an online meeting with the President of Latvia,…

Raheel Ahmad from MPI Gottingen has successfully defended the thesis "Integration of a Light-switchable ATP Regeneration System with Motility" on May 23, 2022 and received the degree of Doctor of Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) on June 9, 2022. The defense went well and was done in the hybrid version. Committee members: 1) Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Dieter Schinzer (Chair) - Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg 2) Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Kai Sundmacher (Reviewer) - Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg 3) Prof. Dr. Seraphine V. Wegner (Reviewer) - University of Münster 4) Prof. Dr. Ghulam Destgeer (Reviewer) - Technical University of Munich

Exploring liquid properties in confined geometry It is a pleasure to announce within the next general conferences of the Division of Condensed Matter of the European Physical Society, CMD29, to be held in Manchester from August 21 to 26, 2022, the minicolloquium "Exploring liquid properties in confined geometries": Confinement or vicinity to a surface can profoundly alter the properties of the liquid which can become completely different from those measured in the bulk. Modern techniques and new theoretical concepts give us today the opportunity to probe and understand non-trivial physical properties identified from the surface interaction to the sub-millimeter scale. The mini-colloquium aims to bring together researchers from various expertise in fluidics, wetting, rheophysics, microfluidics, confinement effects in liquids, interfacial and scaling effects including invited talks, oral and poster contributions. We…