FMS Research Center

Research topics

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Chemical Biology

'Organic Chemistry with Biological Relevance'

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Materials for advanced applications

'Creating function out of hierarchical organization'

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Adaptive — out-of-equilibrium — systems

'Discovering the complexity of living systems'

2023 Izatt-Christensen Award for Sijbren Otto

We congratulate Sijbren Otto, who received the 2023 Izatt-Christensen Award for being a pioneer of supramolecular systems chemistry, taking supramolecular chemistry into completely new directions. The award will be presented to Otto at the 17th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry that will be held in Reykavík, Iceland (25-29 June) […]

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The Netherlands Supramolecular Chemistry Awards 2023

The Research Center for Functional Molecular Systems presents the Netherlands Awards for Supramolecular Chemistry 2023, which recognize outstanding scientists in the field of supramolecular chemistry.   The 2023 Netherlands Supramolecular Chemistry Award is awarded to Professor Joanna Aizenberg (Harvard University). She is a pioneer in the field of bio-inspired materials science and engineering — a […]

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FMS annual meeting 2022

We all thoroughly enjoyed the FMS annual meeting in Zwolle on the 13th of May after 2 years, and being able to hand over the Netherlands Scholar Award for Supramolecular Chemistry 2020 to Prof. Tanja Weil. (photo credits: Tom van der Pol) […]

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Hermann Staudinger award for Bert Meijer

The Society of German Chemists (GDCh) honors Professor Dr. Egbert Willem “Bert” Meijer, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, with the Hermann Staudinger Prize 2022. He will receive the award, which is endowed with 7,500 euros, on September 12 at the Biennial Meeting of the GDCh Division of Macromolecular Chemistry 2022, das from September 12th to […]

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Bert Meijer member of the National Academy of Sciences

In early May 2022, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in the United States of America University granted professor Bert Meijer international membership of the academy. Membership for non-US citizens is extraordinary. Currently, there are only 13 other living Dutch members. Meijer is the very first TU/e professor to become a member of the NAS. […]

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Growth fund for Robot Lab

We congratulate all involved in this wonderful programme / project but especially to Wilhelm Huck, scientific director of the programme, co-initiator Bert Meijer and Teade Punter. More information via this link. […]

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