Workshop for Early Career Investigators in Engineered Living Materials (ELM)
In the last few years, the idea of ELM has emerged as a paradigm change in bioinspired materials engineering. ELM aim to integrate living organisms as active components of man-made materials, with the purpose of augmenting non-living matter with life-like capabilities. In ELM, tools from biotechnology and synthetic biology are combined with materials chemistry and engineering, and provide new capabilities for bottom-up generation of (multi)materials in situ, and for programming multifunctionality by integrating sensing and actuating capabilities in single components.
Early career scientists interested in this emerging and rapidly growing field will be interdisciplinary trained and prepared for the submission of their own project proposal at the DFG. The participants will have the opportunity to further develop their own innovative ideas and apply for one-year funding to kick-off their career in ELM.
This programme targets doctoral researchers in their last year of PhD thesis and postdocs having obtained their PhD within the past four years with a background in material science, synthetic biology, biotechnology, biophysics, bioinformatics or complementary fields. In this stage, they have acquired research expertise in one particular field, and are about to initiate or just initiated a complementary training as next career step.
Timeline
- Virtual Information and Networking Event:18.02.2022 via Zoom (sign up via email)
- Deadline for submission of your application for the workshop: 03.04.2022
- In-person workshop and attendance to Third International Conference on Engineered Living Materials: 17. - 23.06.2022
- Virtual Workshop “Your Project and Profile”: two half days will be arranged within the 18.07. and 29.07.2022
- Deadline for submission of the DFG Proposal: 04.10.2022
Further Information