Post-Doc Position in Singapore: Research Fellow in Soft Materials Science (Structural Characterisation of Protein-based Food Textures)
2025-06-09 08:00 - 2025-11-01 17:00 (Europe/Berlin)
Dear Soft Matter Community,
please find here below an announcement for a postdoctoral researcher (Research Fellow) to join the team at TUMCREATE in Singapore.
The focus will be on the structural characterisation of protein-based food texture as part of the Proteins4Singapore project. Experience with scattering techniques (e.g., SAXS, SANS) or imaging methods (e.g., confocal microscopy, AFM, X-ray tomography) would be particularly valuable.
This position sits at the interface of soft matter, food physics, and materials science, and is based at the unique CREATE campus at the National University of Singapore, where TUM is co-located with institutions such as MIT, ETH Zurich, Imperial College, University of Cambridge, UC Berkeley, University of Illinois, and Hebrew University, among others.
More info on: https://jobrxiv.org/job/tumcreate-27778-research-fellow-in-soft-materials-science-2/.
Please do not hesitate to contact Stefan Guldin (stefan.guldin@tum-create.edu.sg) for any information and to forwarding this to potentially interested candidates.

Higgs School on Advances in Computational Active Matter
2025-06-29 09:00 - 2025-07-04 17:00 (Europe/London) | University of Edinburgh
Active matter has emerged as a field with strong ties to non-equilibrium soft condensed matter and biological physics. Successes of the field include describing the dynamics of motile microbes and flocks of birds, defect self-propulsion in liquid crystals, wound healing and tissue fluidization, modeling of colony growth, and much more. The development of this field owes much to computational techniques. We have therefore put together a school that will introduce early-career researchers to the topic of computational methods for active matter.
Topics Covered
We will provide lectures on 10 topics within computational active matter, each consisting of two 90 minutes sessions, spread over five days. This includes:

Active-Brownian and Run-and-Tumble Particles
Cellular-Potts and Vertex Models for Tissues
Phase-Field Approaches for Pattern-Forming Active Systems
Hydrodynamic Methods for Active Systems, including Lattice Boltzmann, Multi-Particle Collision Dynamics, and Stokesian Dynamics
Squirmer models and immersed boundary conditions
Phoretic Interaction in Chemical Swimmers

The school is concluded with a lecture on the future of active matter systems and will have a group dinner.
Lecturers
We have confirmed the following lecturers and speakers:

Dr. Benno Liebchen (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)
Dr. Chantal Valeriani (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Dr. Davide Marenduzzo (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Dr. Enkeleida Lushi (New Jersey Institute of Technology, United States of America)
Dr. Erika Tsingos (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Dr. Gwynn Elfring (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Dr. Holger Stark (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Dr. Ignacio Pagonabarraga (University of Barcelona, Spain)
Dr. Rastko Sknepnek (University of Dundee, United Kingdom)
Dr. Timm Krüger (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

For more information please visit the Higgs School web portal.

Summer School on Polymeric Networks for Sustainable Development
2025-07-06 19:00 - 2025-07-12 13:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Capri, Italy
The school is addressed to students and researchers both from industry and academic institutions and is open to all with an interest in the structure and dynamics of reprocessable polymer networks, i.e., polymeric networks other than the permanently crosslinked ones (known as thermosets). The school will focus on networks with dynamic, i.e., temporary crosslinks, that can then be reprocessed and recycled (entangled networks, associating networks, vitrimers, etc.). It aims at covering all aspects of these reprocessable networks (experimental, theoretical and computational) in a lively and open environment.
The school is organized by 3 SoftComp members: Giovanni Ianniruberto (University of Naples, Italy), Evelyne van Ruymbeke (UCL, Belgium) and Dimitris Vlassopoulos (FORTH-Crete, Greece). It is also worth emphasizing that the school will particularly focus on vitrimers, a class of materials that was invented by a SoftComp team (ESPCI).
The confirmed lecturers are:
Quan Chen, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CINA
Ralph H. Colby, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Emanuela Del Gado, Georgetown University, USA
Filip Duprez, University of Gent, Belgium
Nikos Hadjichristidis, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Fardin Khabaz, University of Akron, USA
Xiang Li, Hokkaido University, Japan
Mario Minale, Università della Campania, Italy
Tasuku Nakajima, Hokkaido University, Japan
Thomas O’Connor, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Ralm Ricarte, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, Tallahassee, USA
Michael Rubinstein, Duke University, USA
Hiroshi Watanabe, Kyoto University, Japan & Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, China
All speakers are world-leaders in the field.
The expected number of school participants is 50. The registration deadline is 31 January 2025 (subject to
availability of places).
The registration fee is 450€. It covers expenses for lecture notes, coffee + lunch breaks, welcome reception and school dinner.
For more information please check the School web portal.

PhD position on self-assembly dynamics at fluid-fluid interfaces @Wageningen University
2025-09-02 08:00 - 2025-10-02 17:00 (Europe/Berlin)
We have an open PhD position on self-assembly dynamics at fluid-fluid interfaces. Please see the following links for further details:
https://www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/phd-position-in-evaporation-driven-self-assembly-at-fluid-fluid-interfaces.htm
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/637df0f9710645120109b63b/t/68b6c8e804b48618b979c188/1756809448309/vacancy-phd-superassembly.pdf

Bombannes summer school on scattering 2026
2026-06-09 17:30 - 2026-06-16 17:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Carcan-Maubuisson (Gironde, France), France
We are pleased to announce the 17th Bombannes Summer School on “Scattering Methods Applied to Soft Condensed Matter”. This event will be held from 9th to 16th June 2026 at the vacation centre “Les Bruyères” in Bombannes/ Carcans-Maubuisson, Gironde, France.

The deadline for pre-registration is the 20th February 2026, with decisions in April. Further information on the school together with on-line pre-registration can be found on our website:
https://workshops.ill.fr/e/bombannes2026
Please distribute this information to colleagues or students who might be interested. You can also download a flyer at the bottom of our webpage.
On behalf of the Organising Committee, best regards,
Julian Oberdisse, Peter Lindner, Orsolya Czakkel

For any queries please contact us via the e-mail bombannes@ill.fr
