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!

We are happy to announce that one of our RTG's cooperating institutions has become a member of the DRESDEN-concept research alliance: The Kurt-Schwabe-Institut für Mess- und Sensortechnik Meinsberg e.V. (Kurt Schwabe Institute for Measurement and Sensor Technology Meinsberg - KSI Meinsberg) joined the alliance in the last quarter of 2022.

The DRESDEN-concept research alliance has taken on three new members in one go. In addition to the KSI, NaMLab and the Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (ISGV) became new members. The alliance now boasts 36 partner institutions, which are working together to develop the research hub in Dresden into a DRESDEN-concept Science and Innovation Campus.

Nicholas A. Kotov, Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan (USA), visited the Research Training Group 2767 "Supracolloidal Structures: From Materials to Optical and Electronic Devices" at Technische Universität Dresden this week as a Mercator Fellow. During his visit, Prof. Kotov had an intensive exchange with the scientists of the GRK and gave a talk on "Data-Rich Spectroscopies of Chiral Nanostructures: From Giant Circular Dichroism to Chiral Phonons".

The first summer school of RTG 2767 took place in the Schlosshotel Lichtenwalde on 21st/22nd of July. The full team of PhD candidates had a successful kickoff of the projects, and elected the PhD spokespersons. After a team building event moderated by Stefanie Rohac, our mercator fellows Paul Mulvaney (University Melbourne) and Erin Rathcliffe (University Arizona) contributed impulse lectures on modern trends in particle pattern formation at interfaces and characterization of electronic structure of advanced materials. We were as well glad to host the coordinator of RTG 2356 Andreas Kölditz who gave an overview of our partner RTG "Nanohybrid" at Uni Hamburg.