04 Jul 2022 / Doctorate/PhD, People

Congrats, Dr. Angelini!

Alessandro successfully defended his PhD thesis. He gave an excellent presentation about his work, entitled “Nanostructured pervaporation membranes for bioethanol dehydration”. We are happy to keep Alessandro in our group for another year…

27 Jun 2022 / Doctorate/PhD, People

Congrats, Dr. Chimisso!

Vittoria successfully defended her PhD Thesis. She gave an excellent presentation about her work with the title "Anionic microgels for colorful smart materials". We wish her all the best for her future and hope to see her back in Basel,…

27 Jun 2022

Anamarija Nikoletic joined the Palivan group for her Master Thesis

Anamarija will work on the synthesis and Complex Self-Assembly of pH responsive Quadrablock Copolymers.

20 Jun 2022

Zoë Schölly, a high school student, joined the Palivan group for a maturity project.

Zoë investigated different ways to form giant unilamellar vesicles as well as their membrane fluidity using fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP), under Luka's supervision. We wish her a good time in our group for this…

20 Jun 2022

Aurélie Beuret, a high school student, joined the Palivan group for a maturity project.

Aurélie worked on the fabrication and characterization of thin polymer films under the supervision of Maryame. We wish her a good time in our group for this exploratory internship!

01 May 2022 / Research, Doctorate/PhD, Events, People

Moritz won the NCCR MSE 2022 retreat poster prize. Congrats!

01 Apr 2022

Welcome to our new group member, Flavien!

Flavien Sciortino started a postdoc position in our group and will be working on the fabrication of multi-functional vesicles and surfaces. Welcome!

24 Feb 2022 / Research, Studies

Clustered catalytic nanocompartments article highlighted in CHIMIA as interesting publication of swiss origin!

Our Chemical Science article on clustered catalytic nanocompartments with an extracellular non-native cascade reaction was highlighted in CHIMIA as being an interesting publication of Swiss origin.

16 Feb 2022 / Research, Organizational Unit, Info

New PostDoc position available!

New PostDoc position available ("Development of Active Surfaces for Biosensing Applications"). Find the job description here:

03 Jan 2022

Welcome to our new group member, Rémy!

Rémy Cochereau started a postdoc position in our group and will be working on "Development of molecular factories based on microfluidics technology". Welcome!

02 Oct 2021 / Research, People, Info

‘Nanotechnology is the medicine of the future’ - Read the interview with Prof. Cornelia Palivan on Swissinfo

Prof. Cornelia Palivan was interviewed by swissinfo to talk about future perspectives of nanotechnology in medicine and other areas. Read the interesting interview here.

01 Oct 2021 / Research, People

Welcome to our new group member, Olivia!

Olivia Eggenberger started a postdoc position in our group and will be working on "Microfluidic devices for GUV generation and membrane protein insertion". Welcome!

10 Sep 2021 / Doctorate/PhD, Events

Lukas won a poster prize at SCS Fall meeting for the best poster in the physical chemistry session. Congratulations!

07 Sep 2021 / Events

Group Retreat 2021

The Palivan/Meier Group enjoyed this year's group retreat in Brienz. We are sad that the three days passed by so quickly.

16 Aug 2021

Viviane Leopold, a Master Student in Chemistry, joined the Palivan group under the supervision of Viviana Maffeis for a Wahlpraktikum

We wish her a good time in our group with useful experiences for her further studies!

19 Jul 2021 / Research, Studies, People

Jin Ren joins for a Wahlpraktikum in cooperation with the Meier group

We wish her a good time in our group with useful experiences for her further studies!

02 Jul 2021 / Research, Doctorate/PhD, People

Shabnam successfully defended her PhD Thesis - Congratulations

In an inspiring presentation with the title 'Rational Design and Development of Purely Peptidic Amphiphiles for Gene Delivery', Shabnam gave us insight into the great research she did in the past four years. Both the Palivan and Meier…

30 Jun 2021 / Research, Doctorate/PhD, People

Luisa successfully defended her PhD Thesis - Congratulations

Luisa presented her great results of the last four years with the title 'Biomimicking and bioactive compartments: from nanoscale to microscale vesicles'. The whole Palivan & Meier research groups wish her all the best for her future.

28 Jun 2021 / Research, Studies, People

Theresa Emt joins our group for a Wahlpraktikum

She will be supervised by Lukas Heuberger and work in a project related with double-emulsion templated GUVs produced by microfluidics. We are happy to welcome her in our group and wish her a good time and lots of useful experiences for her…

04 Jun 2021 / Research, Doctorate/PhD, People

Claire successfully defended her PhD Thesis - Congratulations

In an outstanding presentation with the title 'Catalytic bio-hybrid polymersomes: towards novel biomedical applications', Claire impressed us with her results of the last four years. The whole Palivan & Meier research groups wish her all…