Events

Soft matter for bioagriculture

BIOPMAC-BP Network-wide upcoming live Events

Bringing together expertise from microbiology, soft matter physics, physical chemistry, agricultural science, chemical and materials engineering.

Events & Conferences

Lead Institution/Location

Date

Introduction to BIO2PHYM FORTH/ETH Zürich, Switzerland 24-29/08/2025
Advanced Module FORTH/ FZJ Jülich, Germany 20-25/09/2026
Summer school on different perspectives to BIO2PHIM FORTH/Berlin, Germany 13-19/09/2026
Industrial Training (together wit the CoCoGel Network) SYENSQO/Utrecht, Netherlands 30/03-02/04 2026
BIOMAC-BP Conference FZJ/FORTH Tba

You will find a list of our online seminar networks below. Our seminar series is designed to encourage interdisciplinary discussion and collaboration across soft matter science, chemical engineering, microbiology and agricultural sciences, reflecting the programme’s scientific breadth and societal relevance.
The primary audience of the seminar series consists of the BIOMAC-BP doctoral candidates, their supervising scientists , and associated researchers within the network.



Online Seminar Series/Topic

Speaker/Institution

Date

“Geometrical incompatibility induced friction at a Soft interface” Deepak Kumar/IIT Delhi, India 28/01/2026

“Mechanically Mediated Interactions Between Biofilm
Aggregates and Hydrogels”

“Environmental Fate of Starch Nanocrystal Stabilized
Microbial Pesticide Formulation in Soil-Plant Systems”

Damm, Ina/ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Heininen, Venla/Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany

25/02/2026
Topic tba tba 25/03/2026
“Bacterial navigation in porous media” Mathijssen, Arnold/University of Pennsylvania, USA 29/04/2026
Topic tba Fischer, Peter / ETHZ Switzerland 27/05/2026
Topic tba Tba 24/06/2026
Topic tba Tba 29/07/2026
Topic tba Tba 30/09/2026
Topic tba Tba 28/10/2026
Topic tba Tba

25/11/2026