Helmholtz Graduate School for Macromolecular Bioscience

Summer Schools

MacroBio Summer-Symposium 2019 "Transformation of material research by digital technologies“



9-10 September 2019
Institute of Active Polymers, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon

Distinguished Guest Speakers:
Amanda Barnard (Data61, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)
Jerry Qi (George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology)
Burkhard Luy (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)
Jasmin Aghassi (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)

MacroBio Summer School 2018 "Biomaterial Science in View of Digitalization"


Summer School 2018

Foto: Hereon/Anne-Christin Schöne

24-26 September 2018
Institute of Active Polymers, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon

Distinguished Guest Speakers:
Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado (University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
Ilko Bald (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Piero Baglioni (University of Florence, Italy)
Michel Goldmann (Université Pierre et Marie Curie & Université Pari Descartes, France)
Manfred Gossen (Hereon-Institute of Active Polymers, Germany)
Norbert Moszner (Ivoclar Vivadent AG, Liechtenstein)

MacroBio Summer School 2017 "Multifunctional Biomaterials - From Basic Principles to Applications"


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Photo: Hereon/Patricia Ebel

18-20 September 2017
University of Potsdam-Campus Golm

Distinguished Guest Speakers:
Mitsuhiro Ebara (International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics-MANA and National Institute for Materials Science-NIMS, Tsukuba, Japan)
Jianping Fu (University of Michigan, USA)
Julien Gautrot (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Jun Wang (South China University of Technology and University of Science and Technology of China)

Speakers within the framework of the Scientific Symposium in honor of Dr. habil. Burkhard Schulz

Distinguished Guest Speakers:
Mariá Jesus Vicent Docón (Polymer Therapeutics Laboratory, Spain)
Ludovico Valli (University of Salento, Italy)

MacroBio Summer School 2016 "Biomaterial Interfaces – Where Biology meets Chemistry"


19-23 September 2016
Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), University of Potsdam-Campus Griebnitzsee, and Institute of Active Polymers, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon

Distinguished Guest Speakers:
Mirosława El Fray (University of Technology Szczecin)
Avi Schroeder (Israel Institute of Technology)
Giuseppe Battaglia (University College London)
Fabian Kießling (University Hospital Aachen)
Kristopher Kilian (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Stephanie Bryant (University of Colorado at Boulder)

MacroBio Summer School 2015 "Surfaces - Fate of Biomaterials"


21-25 September 2015
Freie Universität Berlin, University of Potsdam-Campus Golm, and Institute of Active Polymers, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon

Distinguished Guest Speakers:
Kevin Cavicchi (University of Akron)
Eugenia Kumacheva (University of Toronto)
Oguz Okay (Istanbul Technical University)

MacroBio Summer School 2014 "Materials and Functions - Featuring the Third Dimension"


22-26 September 2014
Freie Universität Berlin, University of Potsdam-Campus Golm, and Institute of Active Polymers, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon

Distinguished Guest Speakers:
Peter Ma (University of Michigan)
Minna Kellomäki (Tampere University of Technology)

MacroBio Summer School 2013


23-27 September 2013
Freie Universität Berlin, University of Potsdam-Campus Golm, and Institute of Active Polymers, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon

Distinguished Guest Speakers:
Michel Cloitre (ESPCI ParisTech)
Bruno Scheller (Saarland University Medical Center)

Opening Celebration of the Helmholtz Graduate School for Macromolecular Bioscience


27 September 2013, 10:00 am
Freie Universität Berlin, Anorganik-Lecture Hall, Fabeckstr. 34/36, 14195 Berlin

Distinguished Guest Speakers:
Kam W. Leong (Duke University)
Nicola Tirelli (Manchester University)