The Executive Committee is composed of the Speaker, the Vice Speaker, and the Coordinator, together with one representative of each of the involved institutions and two doctoral students’ representatives. The committee supports the Coordinator (A. Valleriani) and the Speaker (S. Vignolini) in all significant decisions. It therefore consists of ten members. The Executive Committee is therefore in charge of the strategic development of the IMPRS overall, transforms the proposals arising from the IMPRS Board into concrete activities to improve the curriculum (courses, additional networking activities, IMPRS Conference, retreats, lecture series topics and lecturers). It decides about the promotion of Associate Faculty members to Teaching Faculty members, as well as about the admission of new faculty members in the IMPRS.
Governing Board
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Angelo Valleriani
Angelo Valleriani is the coordinator of the IMPRS-FMD. He is group leader of the group Stochastic Processes in Complex and Biological Systems. Angelo Valleriani’s research is focused on population dynamics of malaria transmitting mosquitos and parasites, cancer cell and seed dormancy, methods for statistical analysis of experimental data. Contact information: https://www.mpikg.mpg.de/valleriani angelo.valleriani@mpikg.mpg.de
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Myfanwy Evans
Vice-Speaker of the IMPRS-FMD. W2 Professor of Applied Geometry and Topology, University of Potsdam. I am a researcher working at the interface of geometry and topology with the natural science, in particular soft and biological materials. I investigate the characterization and function of complicated, embedded three-dimensional geometric structures, including surfaces, networks, weavings and tangling. Contact…
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Silvia Vignolini
Speaker of the IMPRS-FMD, Director of the Sustainable and Bio-inspired Materials Department at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. Silvias Vignolini’s research groups focus on interdisciplinary problems at the interface of chemistry, soft matter physics, optics and biology. Their work focuses on understanding how natural materials are assembled into complex architectures in living…
Institute Representatives
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Beate Koksch
Freie Universität Berlin, University Professor, C3/W2, Organic Chemistry / Natural Product Chemistry. Peptide, protein and cell engineering by incorporation of non-natural amino acids, in particular fluorinated amino acids; new synthesis routes to fluorinated amino acids, fluorinated biopolymers, phage display screening, proteolytic studies; peptide and protein misfolding and aggregation studies; peptide therapeutics. Contact information: https://www.bcp.fu-berlin.de/en/chemie/chemie/forschung/OrgChem/koksch/Members/Group_Head/koksch.html beate.koksch@fu-berlin.de
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Hans G. Börner
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Department of Chemistry Head of Laboratory for Organic Synthesis of Functional Systems. The Börner group focuses on bioinspired polymer science, using peptides and peptide-polymer conjugates for material science applications. As polymer chemists, they explore information-rich segments to program precise molecular interactions. Understanding the driving forces in these systems offers surprising opportunities to…
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Martina Delbianco
Research Group leader with tenure, Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. The Delbianco group focuses on the design and synthesis of carbohydrate materials. We prepare well-defined oligo- and polysaccharides as probes to study their fundamental properties with computational methods, NMR spectroscopy, and microscopy techniques. Based on these insights, we design oligosaccharides that fold into defined…
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Svetlana Santer
Head of Smart Soft Matter in the Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam. Photo-responsive polymers, surfactants, microgels, active colloids, interactions of particles with surfaces, functional polymer films, adaptive diffractive optical elements. Contact information: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/iwm/index santer@uni-potsdam.de
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Vera Meyer
Professor at Technische Universität Berlin, Institute of Biotechnology, Department Applied and Molecular Microbiology. The focus is on researching and optimizing fungal cell factories, with the aim of making more effective use of fungal metabolic potentials for the production of medicines, platform chemicals, enzymes and biomaterials in the sense of a sustainable bioeconomy and circular economy.…
Doctoral Students Representatives
After successful recruitment, two doctoral students will become part of the executive committee.