The Adolphe Merkle Institute

The Adolphe Merkle Institute (AMI) is a leading independent nanoscience competence center at the University of Fribourg that focuses on interdisciplinary research (polymers, physics, biology, biophysics, and materials) and education in the domain of soft nanomaterials. Find out more about us here.

CLIMATE RESEARCH

AMI PhD student publishes in Nature

Adolphe Merkle Institute PhD student René Iseli is a co-author of a new article in the prestigious journal Nature, which sheds new light on the intricate relationship between climate change, wildfires,…

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NEW ROLE

AMI professor joins national council

The Adolphe Merkle Institute’s Co-Chair of BioNanomaterials, Prof. Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser, is one of 15 new members elected to the Swiss National Science Foundation Research Council.

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SPARK OF INNOVATION

Funding for highly original research

Adolphe Merkle Institute researchers have secured two Spark grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) to explore innovative materials with potentially transformative applications.

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BioPhysics (Mayer)
Smart Energy Materials (Milic)
Soft Matter Physics (Steiner)
Mechanoresponsive Materials (Clough)

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