Prof. Konrad Meister
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Boise State University
Konrad Meister joined Boise State University in 2022 and is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. He holds a Doctorate in Physical Chemistry, a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry, all from Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. From 2014-2018 Dr. Meister did his postdoctoral at the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics AMOLF in the Netherlands as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow. Since 2018 he has been a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany. Dr. Meister also worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Alaska Southeast and participated in several Antarctic expeditions. His main research goals are to obtain an understanding of the molecular strategies of cold-adapted organisms and extremeophiles and how we can use nature’s tricks in applications.
Prof. Ilya Voets
Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry
Eindhoven University of Technology
Ilja Voets studied Molecular Sciences at Wageningen University & Research, where she obtained her PhD (cum laude) in 2008 at the Laboratory of Physical Chemistry and Colloid Science under supervision of Dr. Arie de Keizer and Prof. Martien A. Cohen Stuart. Her PhD thesis focused on micellisation in dilute aqueous solutions of two oppositely charge double hydrophilic block copolymers. From 2008-2011 Voets was a postdoctoral researcher at the Aldolphe Merkle Institute of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). In 2011 she started as assistant professor (tenure track) in Physical Chemistry at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry and the Institute for Complex Molecular Systems. Since 2018 she is a full professor at TU/e.