New Fellow
AMI professor honored by international council
19.12.2023
The Adolphe Merkle Institute's Assistant Professor Jovana Milic has been appointed as one of the International Science Council's 100 new Fellows, the highest honor conferred on an individual by the organization.
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Award-winning
AMI alum recognized with grant
23.05.2022
Adolphe Merkle Institute alum Baptiste Monney has received the University of Fribourg's 2022 Thürler-Heeb Grant. This grant is awarded by the Faculty of Science and Medicine to junior researchers to assist…
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Honored
International award for AMI director
31.03.2022
The Adolphe Merkle Institute chair of Polymer Chemistry and Materials, Prof. Christoph Weder, has been honored with the Anselme Payen Award of the American Chemical Society's (ACS) Cellulose and Renewable…
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International reach
AMI professor to join global academy
02.03.2022
The Adolphe Merkle Institute's Assistant Professor Jovana Milic has been selected as one of 39 new members of the Global Young Academy, whose goal is to give a voice to young researchers around the world.
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Award-winning
Faculty prize for AMI PhD
03.03.2021
Adolphe Merkle Institute alum Hana Barosova has been awarded the 2020 Faculty Prize for best doctoral thesis in life sciences at the University of Fribourg.
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Recognition
AMI alum awarded best thesis prize
18.02.2020
Adolphe Merkle Institute alum Omar Rifaie Graham (Macromolecular Chemistry) has been awarded the University of Fribourg’s prize for best experimental thesis.
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Equal opportunities
Award goes to AMI team to promote professional role confidence
06.01.2020
Adolphe Merkle Institute Professors Alke Fink and Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser, along with Dr. Sofia Martin Caba, are one of two recipients of the inaugural 2019 Materials Today Agents of Change Award.
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Award-winning
Best thesis prize goes to AMI graduate
15.11.2019
Adolphe Merkle Institute (AMI) graduate Dr. Céline Calvino has been awarded the 2019 Chorafas Prize for the best doctoral thesis in natural sciences at the University of Fribourg, which focused on the…
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Panorama
The annual report is back
22.07.2019
Our latest annual report is now available online. Read about our 10th anniversary outreach activities, as well as about AMI's contributions to the NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials, and our research.
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