Congratulations to Ilaria Incaviglia on defending her doctoral thesis with the title “Nanotools to Simultaneously Measure Mass and Mechanical Properties of Cellular Systems”.  Ilaria was awarded a ginormous Müller Force hat reminiscent of her recent experiments with huge cantilevers able to balance a spheroid. Thank you for inviting us to a culinary trip to Italy at your apero!

Carson Cole, Ph.D., has been awarded the ETH Zürich Postdoctoral Fellowship. He joins Prof. Dr. Daniel J. Müller’s Biophysics group at D-BSSE to develop biomimetic peptide fibrils to study fibrosis. His work aims to understand fibrotic tissue remodeling and enables innovative in vitro models for therapeutic testing. This prestigious fellowship supports independent, high-impact research for postdoctoral scholars seeking faculty positions.