Professor in Mainz/GER for Life-Like Systems and Materials, Max Planck Fellow, Travel and Food Enthusiast 🧳, AvHumboldt Postdoc-Scout 📧 me
https://www.walther-group.com
Andreas Walther
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Heading out to San Sebastian for the ChemBio 2026.. lnkd.in/dKpHVREp. Looking forward to meeting the Spanish Community and beyond. My keynote is on Tuesday - happy to discuss, just approach me.
It has been great catching up with @pappasgroup.bsky.social in @uni-freiburg.de. King of phosphates in #systemschemistry
Andreas Walther
New in Advanced Materials:
Our “soft hardware, flowing software” platform uses rewritable hydrogel microfluidics to reshape chemical computation—and implements a reservoir computer from flowing reaction dynamics.
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
📍 Mainz, Germany
📅 Start: from July 2026
⏳ Rolling evaluation; deadline end of May 2026
🔗 More info: www.walther-group.com
Please share with excellent Master’s students who want to build adaptive, life-like, intelligent molecular systems.
Chemistry + flow + structure = adaptive chemical computing.
Big congrats to the master - first author Piet!!
You will join an international, interdisciplinary team working at the interface of systems chemistry, DNA nanoscience, polymer materials, synthetic cells, soft matter, and life-like materials.
Possible association with the Max Planck Graduate Center.
🚀 We are recruiting 2 PhD researchers to join the Walther Lab @ JGU Mainz!
Help us build intelligent matter: synthetic cells and hydrogel materials that compute, adapt, move, learn, or make simple decisions.
#PhDPosition #SyntheticCells #Hydrogels
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🧪 PhD 2: Chemo-mechano Materials
We will combine hydrogels, mechanical metamaterials, and chemical reaction networks to create materials where geometry, mechanics, and chemistry feed back on each other.
#SystemsChemistry #Mechanochemistry
🧬 PhD 1: DNA-based Synthetic Cells
We aim to engineer enzymatically active synthetic cells with reaction modules, emergent behaviours such as flow/propulsion, and adaptive features such as habituation and sensitisation.
#DNANanoscience #ActiveMatter
