Juliane Simmchen, who was born in 1986, studied chemistry at TU Dresden. After receiving her diploma in analytical chemistry in 2010, she earned her PhD in materials science at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain in 2014. After stays at the MPI for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, and at the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she returned to TU Dresden in 2016 as a research associate in materials science. Since November 2016, she has been a Freigeist Fellow there on the topic of 'Light driven microswimmers' in physical chemistry. With her research group, she explores colloidal materials and strategies to activate them. They construct so-called micromotors: small-scale structures made of synthetic and biological building blocks that can move autonomously and also explore how different environments, such as interfaces or applied stimuli, affect this movement.
The young scientist is fascinated by her field of research and would like to continue working creatively on the many undiscovered approaches in the future: "The microcosm is an incredibly exciting world that we are just discovering but also starting to use for ourselves. To do this, we need to rebuild our entire toolbox to be able to manipulate our colloids, but they certainly also have a lot of potential to tackle previously unsolved problems in a completely new way."
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The young scientist is fascinated by her field of research and would like to continue working creatively on the many undiscovered approaches in the future: "The microcosm is an incredibly exciting world that we are just discovering but also starting to use for ourselves. To do this, we need to rebuild our entire toolbox to be able to manipulate our colloids, but they certainly also have a lot of potential to tackle previously unsolved problems in a completely new way."
COMPAMED-tradefair.com; Source: Technische Universität Dresden