Journal of Materials Chemistry B, Materials Advances, ChemComm and Biomaterials Science were delighted to sponsor the recent SupraLife Third School held at the University of Aveiro, Portugal from 9 – 14 March 2025. We were pleased to award the three best poster prizes and hope you will join us in congratulating our winners!
1st place poster prize Hugo Brummer Hugo Brummer is a PhD student at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, under the supervision of Prof. Marleen Kamperman. He obtained his BSc degree in Chemistry from Hanzehogeschool in Groningen in 2021, working on designing responsive Pickering emulsions using complex coacervate core micelles for his thesis. That same year, he participated in the NCCR undergraduate summer internship at the Adolphe Merkle Institute in Fribourg, Switzerland, working on the development of mechanopigments that combine structural color changes with a chemically responsive spiropyran-based crosslinking system for strain sensing. He then obtained his MSc degree in Chemistry from the University of Groningen in 2024, specializing in polymer and supramolecular chemistry. For his master’s thesis, he explored a completely different field, attempting to create a system of self-replicators capable of exhibiting Lamarckian evolution. |
2nd place poster prize Chloé Manseau Chloé Manseau graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Matériaux, d’Agroalimentaire et de Chimie de Bordeaux in 2023, specializing in Formulation and Polymer Sciences. She then continued my studies with a PhD in Polymer Sciences at LCPO (Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques) under the supervision of Sébastien Lecommandoux. Her PhD project aims to design and develop self-propelled artificial cells for drug delivery based on the self-assembly of amphiphilic copolymers into vesicles, called polymersomes. |
3rd place poster prize Andreia Malafaia Andreia holds a bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry (UA, 2021), where she built a strong foundation in laboratory techniques and focused her final project on epigenetic drug development for cancer therapy. Her passion for biomaterials and regenerative medicine led her to pursue a master’s in Molecular Biotechnology and Bioengineering (UA, 2023). During her dissertation at COMPASS RG (CICECO-UA), she developed photocrosslinkable inks with natural polymers, including human-derived proteins, for 3D printing applications. She later received a research grant within the H2020 InterLynk project, further advancing biomaterial-based inks for personalized therapies. Currently, she is a research fellow at COMPASS RG (CICECO-UA) and has been recently awarded a PhD studentship. Andreia has attended international conferences, published a review in Biomaterials Advances, and actively engages in scientific workshops. Her journey has reinforced her ambition to innovate in medical science, particularly in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
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