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Award ceremony during the 51st Annual General Meeting 2022
A special issue celebrating 100 years of the Colloid Society has been published in Colloid and Polymer Science. During the 51st Annual General Meeting of the Kolloid-Gesellschaft, to be held from 28-30. September 2022, with the theme 100 Years Kolloid-Gesellschaft Colloid Science – as Modern as Ever, the following prizes were awarded by the Kolloid-Gesellschaft:…
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Zsigmondy-Kolloquium 2022
The 17th Zsigmondy Colloquium of the Colloid Society took place at the RWTH Aachen university between the 6th and the 8th of April 2022. Invited Speakers Janne-Mieke Meijer Eindhoven University of Technology Yuri Gerelli La Sapienza University in Rome Mathias Karg Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Thomas Mosciatti The Dow Chemical Company More than 90 participants discussed the…
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Zsigmondy-Kolloquium 2020
The 16th Zsigmondy Colloquium of the Colloid Society e.V. took place at the Heinrich Heine University (HHU) in Düsseldorf under particular conditions (at the beginning of the Covid 19 pandemic). Invited Speakers Peter Schurtenberger Lund University, Schweden Ilja Voets Eindhoven University of Technology, Niederlande From March 9th to 11th, 2020, almost 90 participants discussed the…
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Award ceremony during the 49th Annual General Meeting
During the 49th General Meeting of the Colloid Society (Colloid Conference “Complex Fluids”), held in Stuttgart, Germany, September 23-25, 2019, the following Colloid Society Awards were presented: Dominique Langevin Dominique Langevin (left), CNRS and University of Paris-South, received the Ostwald Prize in recognition of her work on thin films and foams. Michal Borkovec Michal Borkovec…
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Zsigmondy Colloquium 2019
The annual conference for young scientists was held for the first time at the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research (IPF) in Dresden between 10 and 12 July 2019. The Zsigmondy Colloquium is aimed at young researchers at the doctoral and postdoctoral level in the field of colloid, surface, and interface research. It is named after…
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Prof. Dr. Helmuth Möhwald (1946 – 2018)
The Colloid Society mourns the passing of Prof. Dr. Helmuth Möhwald.Prof. Dr. Helmuth Möhwald passed away on March 27, 2018. He was particularly closely associated with the Colloid Society for many years. In 1998, he was the first Liesegang Prize winner, and from 2003 to 2007, he was chairman of the Colloid Society. Until 2017,…
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Zsigmondy Colloquium 2018
The 14th Zsigmondy Colloquium of the Colloid Society took place in Mainz from April 9 to 11. The nearly 100 participants discussed properties of surfaces and interfaces at 36 registered lectures and 35 posters. Best presentation: Kathrin Voigtländer On the occasion of this Zsigmondy Colloquium, a prize for the best presentation and two poster prizes…
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Colloid Society Award Winner 2017
On the occasion of the 48th Annual General Meeting in Garching near Munich, the prizes of the Colloid Society were awarded by its Board of Directors. The prize winners of the year 2017 are: Reinhard Lipowsky receives the Ostwald Prize in recognition of his work on theoretical foundations of colloidal systems in volume and at…
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Colloid Society Award Winner 2015
The Colloid Society, through its Board of Directors, awardson the occasion of the 47th Annual General Meeting 2015 in Mainz to Matthias Karg the Zsigmondy Scholarship in recognition and promotion of his workon the use of colloidal systems for thecontrol of optical properties. Matthias Ballauff the Ostwald Award in recognition of his work oncolloidal polymer…
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2013 Colloid Society Award Winner
The award winners of 2013 are: Steinkopff Award: Reinhard Strey, Cologne Graham Award: Thomas Zemb, Montpellier Liesegang Award: Werner Goedel, Chemnitz Zsigmondy Scholarship: Dmitry Volodkin, Potsdam Rheinhard Strey Reinhard Strey received the Steinkopff Award in recognition of his work on nucleation, the structure elucidation of microemulsions and the application of these findings in practice (microemulsion…