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Come and explore the Future Materials Inspired by Nature!
Shaping Tomorrow With Smart and Living Materials: Join us for an engaging afternoon of talks and hands-on experiments with the LIBER...


Prof. Arri Priimägi selected as Finland's Ambassador for the ERC
Professor Arri Priimägi from Tampere University has been selected as Finland’s Ambassador for the European Research Council (ERC), part...


Dr. Hongshuang Guo awarded Academy Fellowship in 2025
Dr. Hongshuang Guo have been awarded a four-year Academy Research Fellowship funded by the Research Council of Finland. The project will...


ERC Starting Grant Awarded to Dr. Maja Vučkovac
Academy Research Fellow, Dr. Maja Vučkovac and the leader of the Soft Adhesion and Interfaces Research Group at Aalto University has...


Doctoral Defence of Zixuan Deng
Photo: Hongshuang Guo Zixuan Deng defended his doctoral dissertation on Thursday, 4.9.2025 , at Tampere University, Faculty of...


Doctoral Defence of Iris Seitz
Iris Seitz defended her doctoral dissertation on Wednesday, 18.6.2025 , at Aalto University. Title of the thesis: Virus-mimetic...


Doctoral Defence of Jokotadeola Odutola
Photo: Jokotadeola Odutola Jokotadeola Odutola defended her doctoral dissertation on Tuesday, 3.6.2025 at Tampere University, Faculty of...


Researchers from the Soft Matter and Wetting group received the Innovation Prize at the Department of Applied Physics
Sakari Lepikko and Mariia Kiesleva, winners of the innovation Prize at Department of Applied Physics Every year, the Department of...


Doctoral Defence of Zhennan Kou
Zhennan Kou defended his doctoral dissertation on Friday 21.3.2025 at Aalto University. Title of the thesis: Molecular Simulations of...


Two Innovative R2B Projects from LIBER CoE Presented at Demo Day
The surface characterization equipment developed by the Ultraforce project team. On March 6, 2025, the Aalto Start-Up Center organized a...


Doctoral Defence of Hossein Vahid Dastjerdi
Hossein Vahid will defend his doctoral dissertation on Friday 13.12.2024 at Aalto University Title of the thesis: Modeling of charged...


ERC Starting Grant Awarded to Dr. Hang Zhang
Dr. Hang Zhang, a Research Fellow and leader of the Life-Inspired Soft Matter group at Aalto University, was granted a prestigious ERC...


Five LIBER CoE Researchers Awarded Prestigious Academy Fellowship in 2024
Five researchers from the LIBER Centre of Excellence (CoE) have been awarded the highly competitive Academy Fellowship by the Research...


Doctoral defence of Daniel Langerreiter
Daniel Langerreiter defended his doctoral thesis on October 25th, 2024 at Aalto University. Title of his thesis: Synthesis of cellulose...


Doctoral defence of Yin Yin
Yin Yin defended her doctoral dissertation on Friday 18.10.2024 at Aalto University. Title of the thesis: Assembly of silk-like proteins...


Sesilja Aranko appointed as Assistant Professor at Aalto University
Sesilja Aranko has been appointed to a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at Aalto University, Department of Bioproducts and...


Doctoral defence of Lotta Gustavsson
Welcome to the public doctoral defence of Lotta Gustavsson on Friday, May 31st at Aalto University. In the dissertation, ionic...


Best Poster Awards at the LIBER Symposium 2024
We are excited to share the highlights from the LIBER Symposium 2024, held in May. Jennifer, Sharadhi, and Mathias received the Best...


Doctoral defence of M.Sc. Hedar Al-Terke
Welcome to the public doctoral defence of Hedar Al-Terke on Monday May 10th at Aalto University. Title of the thesis: Functional...


Doctoral defence of M.Sc. Amanda Eklund
Welcome to the public doctoral defence of Dmitrii Federov on Friday 10th May 2024 at Aalto University. Title of the thesis: Switchable...


Doctoral defence of M.Sc. Dmitrii Fedorov
Welcome to the public doctoral defence of Dmitrii Federov on Friday May 3rd at Aalto University. Title of the thesis: Analytical...


Doctoral defence of M.Sc. Robert Pylkkänen
Title of the doctoral thesis: Cellodextrin and β-D-1,3-glucan phosphorylases as biocatalysts for novel glucan structure synthesis...


Doctoral defence of M.Sc. Alex Berdin
Title of the doctoral thesis: Holographic Recording in Azobenzene Films: A Digital Holographic Microscopy Approach. When: Friday...


Olli Ikkala received his third ERC Advanced Grant
The LIBER PI, Professor Olli Ikkala was granted his third Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) on 11 April 2024. The...
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