28 ^th and 29 ^th May 2018

On behalf of our annual “bioelectrochemistry and more…” meeting, numerous distinguished experts from this field as well as CEST’s in house experts and colleagues from the AIT gathered together in Wiener Neustadt. Our visitors attended from renowned institutions such as Imperial College (UK), Kobe University (JP) or the Flinders University in Australia (AU) and presented their current work as well as the newest trends and developments.

The mixture of experts from the field of materials (e.g. carbon based nanomaterials) biology (protein/receptor chemistry) and medicine created a highly fruitful basis for new project ideas and innovative new collaborations. This interdisciplinary approach is highly valuable for our Dept. of bioelectrochemistry, which is one of the three key areas in our COMET K1 center for Electrochemical Surface Technology. The organization of scientific highlights is crucial for a scientific exchange, an increased (international) visibility and the recognition of Wiener Neustadt as technological and research city. Beside these aspects, a number of young scientists (mainly PhD candidates) were invited to get the possibility to present their work in a short presentation and to get in contact with leading experts in a small and familiar environment.

Invited speakers for this workshop were:

Fabio Biscarini, Life Science Department, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

Georg Gramse, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Life Science Center, Austria

Andreas Offenhäusser, Peter Grünberg Institute, Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany

Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz Institute for Organic Solar Cells (LIOS) / Institute of Physical Chemistry, Austria

Rudolf Heer, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria

Annette Andrieu-Brunsen, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany

Paul Meredith, Department of Physics, Swansea University, UK

Anna Maria Coclite, Institute of Solid State Physics, Graz University of Technology, Austria

Sabine Szunerits, Institut d’Electroique de Microelectronique et de Nanotechnologie, Université de Lille, France

Izabella Brand, Institute of Chemistry, University of Oldenburg, Germany

Ingo Köper, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Australia

Wolfgang Schuhmann, Analytical Chemistry, Ruhr University Bochum

Carlo A. Bortolotti, Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

Kenichi Morigaki, Laboratory of Artificial Bio-Membrane, Kobe University, Japan