The Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering is pleased to welcome Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Caroline Murawski to the Chair of Biomedical Sensor Technology on July 1, 2024.

Professor Murawski is a proven scientist with core research areas in the development of flexible and miniaturized biomedical sensors based on organic semiconductor devices. Her work is highly interdisciplinary and combines electrical engineering and biomedicine with physics and chemistry. In particular, she conducts research into optoelectronic components for the stimulation and detection of neurons using optogenetics and fluorescence imaging. For biological investigations, she mainly uses fruit flies as a model organism for genetics and uses them for measurements in vivo and in vitro.

(News based on the press release by Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), 15 March 2024)

The RTG 2767 congratulates its Principal Investigator Dr. Larysa Baraban. The researcher from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has been appointed by TU Dresden to the professorship "Medical Nanotechnology" at the Else Kröner Fresenius Center (EKFZ) for Digital Health starting May 2024. The Helmholtz Association is supporting this and another new professorship (Kristina Kvashnina) with funding of 200,000 euros per year. The background to this funding is the Helmholtz Association's "Erstberufungsprogramm", which aims to recruit outstanding female researchers for leadership positions at scientific institutions. In 2022, the two scientists, who were awarded an ERC grant, successfully applied for the program, which was launched by the "Pakt für Forschung und Innovation" initiative of the federal and state governments. The funding will now benefit Larysa Baraban and Kristina Kvashnina by not only offering them reliable career prospects in science, but also creating additional scope for the financial organization of their professorships.

Statement of the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany regarding the current situation in Israel.

Ronja Thümmler was elected as new PhD representative at the RTG 2767 summer school. Borja Rodriguez-Barea was confirmed as PhD representative. At this point we would like to thank Nadja Metzkow for her great work. The PhD representatives are full members of the board of the Research Training Group and thus have a right to vote on all decisions of the group. They also coordinate the student organization of teaching content and social media activities. We congratulate Ronja and Borja on their election and look forward to further collaboration!