News

New group picture!

New group picture!

How fast time flies you can see on these pictures. Within a year, the team has more than doubled!!

The team around Prof. Costa now consists of 2 subgroup leaders, a technical assistant, 2 team assistants, 4 Postdocs, 10 PhD students and on average 2-4 Master/Bachelor students, as well as 2-4 Research-Internship students.

We are still hiring…do you want to be part of us?

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New Team Members starting in September!

We are very pleased to welcome M.Sc. Marta Patrian und Dr. Mattia Nieddu to our team.
Marta, our new PhD Student will focus on designing new fluorescent proteins for energy related applications.
Mattia is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow. His research focuses on developing Bio-hybrid LEDs based on fluorescent protein-based nanomaterials.

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Congratulations to Elisa for the new paper!

Congratulations to Elisa for the new paper!

Congratulations to Elisa for the new paper on sustainable Copper (I) complexes for low-cost lighting systems based on light-emitting electrochemical cells. The advance article is highlighted in Dalton Transactions.

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ARTIBLED’s video

ARTIBLED’s video

Check out our ARTIBLED’s video!

It highlights the most relevant aspects of our FET-OPEN project:
motivation, innovation, team, and research approach.

Please contact us for more information and/or collaboration.

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Congratulations to Sara for her participation to E-MRS Spring Meeting 2021!

Congratulations to Sara for her participation to E-MRS Spring Meeting 2021!

On the 3rd of June 2021, Sara presented our latest work at E-MRS Spring 2021 with a talk entitled Towards highly stable eco-friendly squaraine-protein phosphors for Bio-HLEDs. She presented promising results obtained in collaboration with ARTIBLED consortium about a novel bio-phosphor for Bio-HLEDs based on red-emitting protein-dye systems.

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First anniversary of our Chair!

First anniversary of our Chair!

Time goes bye quickly, but we have achieved a lot over this year! We are growing, building, and getting ready a great teaching and research portfolio. Hope you can join us soon!

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Contact

Chair of Biogenic Functional Materials

Schulgasse 22
94315 Straubing

Email: biofunmat@cs.tum.de

Head of the Chair

Prof. Dr. habil. Rubén D. Costa
Tel.: +49 (0) 9421 187-470
E-Mail: ruben.costa@tum.de

Office

Susanne Zosel
Tel.: +49 (0) 9421 187-480
E-Mail: susanne.zosel@tum.de

Theresa Rothammer (nicht anwesend)
Tel.: +49 (0) 9421 187-480
E-Mail: theresa.rothammer@tum.de