PhD Position - DNA-based Liquid Crystal Elastomers - Towards an artificial cytosceleton

id="offer-description" class="ecl-u-type-heading-2 ecl-u-mt-none ecl-u-mb-l">Offer Description Area of research: . PHD Thesis. Job description: PhD Position - DNA-based Liquid Crystal Elastomers - Towards an artificial cytosceleton . Join us in exploring how the principles of soft matter and biomolecular self-organization can inspire the next generation of functional materials. Our research at the. Institute of Biological Information Processing - Biomacromolecular Systems and Processes (IBI-4). combines physics, chemistry, and biology to understand the collective behaviour of biomacromolecules and to develop innovative liquid crystal elastomers with programmable mechanical properties. In this project, you will contribute to the fabrication and characterization of novel microscale liquid crystal elastomers using advanced microfluidic techniques and state-of-the-art microscopy and rheology. Your work will help uncover how rational design governs mechanical function, providing new insights for responsive materials with applications ranging from bioinspired actuators to model systems for cellular mechanics. Your Job . As part of this project, you will fabricate and characterize novel microscale liquid crystal elastomers (micro-LCEs) based on charged microgels with tailored polymer network architectures. Your work will involve the production of micro-LCE particles using microfluidic techniques, followed by their structural and responsive characterization using microscopy and scatt