How can polydopamin be applied with UV-Light? The research group of Dr. Pavel Levkin has published their result in  Advanced Materials.

From a super repellent surface oil as well as water drips off. Dr. Bastian Rapp focuses on making such a material more robust. The BMBF funds his research with 2.85 Million Euro during the next four years. 

This year's YIN-Day offered a platform for lively discussions, amplified by a poster session, presentations of the new YIN-Clusters and the YIN-Science Awards as well as an invited talk by YIN-Alumnus Prof. Chris Eberl.

Dr. Pavel A. Levkin received Ewald Wicke-Award 2014 of the Ewald Wicke-Foundation. Every year the foundation awards young scientists in the area of applied physical chemistry for their outstanding achievements. Dr. Pavel Levkin was awarded for his outstanding work in the field of the production of structured superhydrophobic/ superhydrophilic surfaces and their applications in cell biology and microfluidics. The Prize was awarded at the 113th Bunsentagung 29th -31st of May 2014 in Hamburg.

The inside cover image is a 2D pattern of water surface-tension-confined channels formed on an array of hydrophilic spots (“digits”) surrounded by hydrophobic barriers. This method, called digital liquid patterning (DLP), allows for the formation of liquid patterns of arbitrary and easily variable geometries without the need for the fabrication of new photomasks for every pattern with a different geometry. Further details can be found in article 1300075 by P. A. Levkin and co-workers.

With a unique cooperation, Daimler AG and KIT enrich their long years of intensive cooperation. Since April there is an Industry Fellowship with the name "GoTech4DAI - Global Technology Monitoring for Dynamic Automotive Industries". Industry Fellow is Dr. Steven Peters. The goal of "GoTech4DAI" is the study of methods for the assessment of new, "immature" production technologies and the joint development of industrialization concepts for innovative technologies in the automotive industry.

Die drei Nachwuchsgruppenleiter und YIN-Mitglieder Dr. Emmanuel Müller, Dr. Martin Nöllenburg und Dr. Stefanie Speidel wurden im Februar 2014 zu den ersten KIT Associate Fellows an der Fakultät für Informatik des KIT ernannt und haben nun das Recht, die Mitglieder ihrer Nachwuchsgruppen in der Promotionsprüfung als Gutachter zu betreuen. Möglich wurde dies durch eine entsprechende Änderung der Promotionsordnung der Fakultät vom 14. Januar 2014.

Am KIT-Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung messen Wissenschaftler, darunter das YIN-Mitglied Dr. André Butz, auf dem Forschungsschiff die Konzentration von Treibhausgasen über dem Atlantik.

Am 12.11.13 wählten die anwesenden Mitglieder einstimmig neue Sprecher für die fachliche Vernetzungs- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit des YIN. Peter Orth wird zum Nachfolger von Katja Träumner, die den Öffentlichkeitsausschuss bis dahin sehr erfolgreich geleitet hat. Christian Greiner tritt das Amt des Sprechers für die fachliche Vernetzung an. Orth und Greiner sind zeitgleich die Mitglieder des erweiterten YIN-Vorstands.

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The aim of Dr. Cornelia Lee-Thedieck’s research project is the development of novel biomimetic nanostructured materials for the cultivation of hematopoietic stem cells.  The project will be funded for four years with 1.88 million € (FKZ: 13N12968).

The YIN supports a collaborative project of the groups of Dr. Pavel Levkin and Dr. Cornelia Lee-Thedieck, which aims at developing a new method to screen stem cells in three-dimensional (3D) environments on the single-cell level. With the results of their work the researchers want to gain a deep understanding of how stem cells are influenced by biological, chemical and physical factors in 3D. 

Im Fachmagazin „Advanced Materials“ geben Dr. Pavel A. Levkin (YIN-Mitglied) und Doktorandin Erica Ueda vom Institut für Toxikologie und Genetik (ITG) des KIT einen Überblick über Vorteile und Anwendungsmöglichkeiten von großflächigen Strukturen, die beide Eigenschaften vereinen.

With a project on efficient and scalable partitioning of large graphs and networks with application, for example, in numeric simulation, YIN supports a collaboration of computer scientists Juniorprofessor Henning Meyerhenke and Dr. Martin Nöllenburg (YIG). The goal of the project is, in a first step, to draw the graph into the plane using force-based layout algorithms, so that geometric and graph-theoretic proximity of nodes relate well to each other. In a second step, fast geometric partitioning algorithms can be used to partition the graph. This combined approach promises better scalability to very large graphs while still yielding high quality partitions.

With the decision of the last YIN-Member-Meeting on 19.03.2013 the terms of affiliation have been extended. From now on all official KIT- Junior Research Group Leader (KIT-Nachwuchsgruppenleiter) as well as Group Leaders with temporary contracts, who have personnel responsibility can join the network.

The European Career Fair in Boston is an annual event at the MIT. Employer from all over Europe are looking for highly talented and motivated candidate, who study, do research or work in the USA. As it was in the past the KIT also had a stand at the ECF. The Young Investigator Network was represented by Juniorprof. Henning Meyerhenke. At a side-event of the DAAD Henning Meyerhenke gave a lecture about junior professorship in Germany. Both aroused brisk interest by the junior scientists.

Dr. Pavel Levkin (YIN member since 2010) and Dr. Gary Davidson have founded a biotech company – Incella GmbH.

Incella GmbH develops, produces and commercializes worldwide novel highly efficient transfection and gene-delivery reagents for variety of biotechnological and pharmaceutical applications.

YIN spokesperson Corinna Hoose has been appointed Full Professor of Theoretical Meteorology at the Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research - Troposphere Research (IMK-TRO) at KIT.

The Society for Tribology (GfT) awards Bashir Fakih from the junior group of Martin Dienwiebel the award for the best diploma thesis 2012 for Tribology. The award ceremony will be at the Tribology-Symposium on 25.09.2012 in Göttingen.

Since 22.08.2012 the YIN was strengthened by three new members:
Dr.- Ing. Stefanie Speidel (Margarete-von Wrangell), Dr.rer.nat. Christian Greiner (Emmy Noether), Jprof. Jian-Jia Chen.

This year the YIN annual meeting focused on the networking aspect between YIN members and alumni and consolidated their connection to KIT. Within an amicable atmosphere it gives the opportunity to exchange scientific, professional and private experience. A highlight was the talk by YIN alumnus Prof. Dominik Möst.

On 24.05.2012 Ph.D. und Dipl. Phys. Peter Philipp Orth was accepted as a member of the YIN. He is group leader of a YIG at the Institute for Theoretical Condensed Matter physics, KIT Campus South, his research theme is "Many-body physics of graphene in strong coherent optical fields“

Owing to the Start-up funding of YIN Prof. Dr. Katja Schmitz (YIN-Alumna) and Dr. Bastian Rapp were able to generate ligands on technical surfaces with maskless projection lithography. The procedure is very fast and flexible.

The results were recently published in "Small".

On 22.02.2012 Dr. Ing. Dipl.-Math.techn. Felix Fritzen was accepted as a member of the YIN. He is group leader of a YIG at the Institute of Engineering Mechanics, KIT Campus South, his research field is computer aided materials research.

February 2012: Dr. Lars Bauer received the Best Elective Lecture Award for the lecture „Reconfigurable and Adaptive Systems” in the summer term 2011 from the Department of Informatics at the KIT.

From February the 01. the EU project EU -BRIDGE started. Also involved is the RG 3-01 "Multilingual Speech Recognition" under the direction of the YIN member Sebastian Stüker. The EU-BRIDGE consortium developed a forward -looking service equipment for applications with speech translation, as it was needed for the" Lecture Translation" project.

RG 3-01 'Multilingual Speech Recognition' lead by YIN member Sebastian Stüker is partner of the Interreg project EVEIL 3D, which was launched on January 1st 2012.