2023

Henrik Nordanger

Title: Lattice Boltzmann simulations of tracer diffusion in microswimmer suspensions

Opponent: Senior Lecturer Marco Polin, IMEDEA, Illes Balears, Spain.

2023-05-04

Erika Andersson

Title: Dissolved Organic Matter from a colloidal perspective

Opponent: Professor Walter Richtering, Aachen University, Germany.

2023-06-09

Hong Jiang

Title: Developing novel diffusion MRI methods for comprehensive analysis of restricted and anisotropic self-diffusion system

Opponent: Associate Professor John Seland, University of Bergen, Norway

2023-09-29

Alexandra Andersson

Title: Fluorescence microscopy studies of interactions between monomeric α-Synuclein and lipid membranes

Opponent: Professor Richard Lundmark, Umeå University.

2023-10-20

Jennifer Gilbert

Title: Unravelling the structure and dynamics of lipid nanoparticles for biomolecule delivery

Opponent: Professor Jayne Lawrence, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

2023-10-27

2022

Guanqun Du

Versatile Association Behavior in Mixtures of Oppositely Charged Amphiphiles: From DNA-Like Assembly of Supramolecular Helices to Coacervation in Chiral Surfactant Systems

Opponent: Professor Alex L. MacKay, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

2022-01-31

Katarzyna Makasewicz

Alpha-synuclein interactions with lipid membranes

Opponent: Professor Peter Kasson, Uppsala University

2022-04-01

Manto Chouliara

Binding Kinetics of Proteins at Immune-Cell Contacts

Opponent: Dr. Kristina Ganzinger, AMOLF, Netherlands

2022-09-28

Simon Fridolf

NMR studies on lipid-peptide co-aggregation between ganglioside[1]containing membranes and alpha

Opponent: Professor Gerhard Gröbner, Umeå University

2022-11-11

Tommy Dam

Titel: The influence of adhesion molecules on binding and protein organization in cell contacts

Opponent: Professor Anton van der Merwe, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

2022-12-14

2021

Marija Dubackic

"Alpha-synuclein: amyloid fbrils and interactions with lipid membranes"

Opponent: Professor Raffaele Mezzenga, ETH Zürich

2022-12-16

Karolina Mothander
”Grazing incidence small angle scattering as a tool to study curved biomembrane on nanostructured surfaces”
Professor Eva M Herzig, Dynamik und Strukturbildung - Herzig Group, Universität Bayreuth, Germany
2021-10-15

Johan Larsson
”Tailoring the self­assembly, interfacial properties and rheological behaviour of sugar­based surfactants”
Opponent: Professor Motomu Tanaka, Heidelberg University, Germany
2021-01-29
 
Polina Naidjonoka
”On the physico-chemical properties of softwood hemicellulose and compounds derived from it”
Opponent: Associate Professor Monika Österberg, Aalto University, Finland
2021-01-15

2020

João P. De Almeida Martins
”Pushing diffusion MRI towards new dimensions”
Opponent: Professor Alex L. MacKay, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
2020-01-31

Axel Rüter
”On the colloidal and molecular aspects of peptide self-assembly”
Opponent: Dr Joel P. Schneider, National Institutes of Health, Chemical Biology Laboratory, Frederick, Maryland, U.S.A.
2020-03-06

Dora Bardfalvy

"Simulations of collective phenomena on microswimmer suspensions"

Opponent: Professor Gerhard Gompper, Forschungzentrum Jülich, Germany

2020-12-17

Jon Pallbo Arvidsson

"Aggregation behavior and peptide-lipid interaction in a amyloid model system"

Opponent: Dr Adam Squires, Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, UK. 2020-10-22

2019

Tommy Garting
”Microrheology of Concentrated Protein Solutions”
Opponent: Professor Frank Scheffold, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
2019-02-22

Maxime J. Bergman
“On the Phase Behaviour of Soft Matter:
Understanding Complex Interactions via Quantitative Imaging”
Opponent: Professor Thomas Hellweg, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
2019-03-14

Maria Valldeperas Badell
“Lipid sponge phase nanostructures as carriers for enzymes”
Opponent: Professor John M. Seddon, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
2019-03-15

Jasper N. Immink
“Fluids, Gels and Crystals
Phase behavior of binary thermoresponsive microgel mixtures”
Opponent: Dr Erika Eiser, Reader in Soft Matter Physics, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
2019-03-29

Linda Månsson
“Synthesising colloidal molecules with tunable interactions from soft responsive microgel particles”
Opponent: Professor Matthias Karg, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
2019-05-03

Feifei Peng
“A microfluidic toolbox to fabricate, sort and characterize thermoresponsive colloidal molecules and their assemblies”
Opponent: Professor Lucio Isa, Eldgenössiche Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ), Zürich, Switzerland
2019-09-04

Victoria Junghans
"Protein Dimensions and Interactions at Immune-Cell Contacts"
Opponent: Professor Michael L. Dustin, Kennedy Institute, University of Oxford, U.K.
2019-12-13

2018

Jenny M. Andersson
"Self-Assembly in Lipid-Protein Systems - Lung Surfactant, Stratum Corneum and Model Membranes"
Opponent: Professor Katarina Edwards, Uppsala universitet
2018-02-09

Ricardo Lourenco Gaspar
"α-Synuclein Fibril Formation and the Effects of Lipid Membranes"
Opponent: Professor Roland Riek, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland
2018-10-26

2017

Jenny Algotsson
”Ions in models of articular cartilage:
The importance of electrostatic interactions for transport and equilibrium distribution”
Opponent: Dr. Mikko J. Nissi, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
2017-02-17

Alexei Abrikossov
”Modelling anisotropic interactions in colloidal systems”
Opponent: Associate Professor Sofia Kantorovich, Computational Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Austria
2017-04-07

2016

Carin Hagsten
”Cleaning of ultra-high temperature milk fouling – Structural and compositional changes”
Opponent: Professor Ian Wilson, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K.
2016-03-08

Stefanie Eriksson
“Development of Novel Diffusion NMR Methods – Preclinical Applications in Colloidal Model Systems”
Opponent: Dr. Itamar Ronen, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
2016-05-27

Sanna Gustavsson
”Structure and dynamics of complex materials in the water-poor regime”
Opponent: Professor Martin Malmsten, Department of Pharmacy, Uppsala University
2016-06-10

Emelie J. Nilsson
“Aqueous behaviour of characteristic molecules in the synthesis of porous silica materials
– an atomistic description”
Opponent: Professor Ferdi Schüth, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim, Germany
2016-06-13

Solmaz Bayati
“Mixed Block Copolymer Solutions: Self-Assembly and Interactions”
Opponent: Professor Kell Mortensen, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2016-06-15

Weimin Li
”Attractive Patchy Protein Interactions – Understanding of protein dimerization”
Opponent: Professor Abraham M. Lenhoff, University of Delaware, Newark, USA
2016-09-16

Quoc Dat Pham
“Foreign molecules in biomembranes
– Molecular effects on intact stratum corneum and model lipid systems”
Opponent: Professor Michel Lafleur, Department of Chemistry, Université de Montréal, Canada
2016-09-23

Sofi Nöjd
”Structure, Dynamics and Phase Behaviour of Charged Soft Colloidal Dispersions”Opponent: Prof. Dr. Stefan U. Egelhaaf, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
2016-11-24 

Ruiyu Lin
“The Co-Structure Directing Agent (CSDA) Approach to Mesoporous Silica Formation
– Exploring the Assembly Characteristics”
Opponent: Prof. Dr. Mika Lindén, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry II, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
2016-11-25

2015

Charlotte Gustavsson
”Environmentally Responsive Surface Coatings of Polyion-Surfactant Ion Complex Salts”
Opponent: Professor Lars Wågberg, KTH, Stockholm
2015-04-17

Saskia Bucciarelli
”A scattering study of concentrated lens protein solutions and mixtures –
Towards understanding the molecular origin of presbyopia”
Opponent: Professor Lise Arleth, University of Copenhagen, Danmark
2015-12-11

2014

Patrik Knöös
”Water-swellling tablets based on hydrophobically modified poly(acrylic-acid) – Effects of amphiphiles on swelling and drug release”
Opponent: Professor Peter Griffiths, University of Greenwich, England
2014-02-28 

Marianna Yanez Arteta
”Nanostructured surfaces created by the interactions of dendrimers and oppositely charged amphiphiles”
Opponent: Professor Stefan Zauscher, Duke University, USA
2014-09-26

2013

Tiago Mendes Ferreira
”Structure and Dynamics in Amphiphilic Bilayers – NMR and MD Simulation Studies”
Opponent: Dr Klaus Gawrisch, Laboratory of Membrane Biochemistry and Biophysics, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Maryland, USA2013-06-05

Celen Cagri Cenker
”Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium Aggregation in the Model Peptide Family A_nX”
Opponent: Professor Martin Malmsten, Department of Pharmacy, Uppsala universitet
2013-06-13

Sebastian Björklund
”How water and osmolytes influence biophysical properties of stratum corneum”
Opponent: Professor Jenifer Thewalt, Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
2013-06-14

Thomas Kjellman
”Mesoporous Silica SBA-15 – Formation, Modification and Apoplication”Opponent: Professor Lennart Bergström, Stockholms universitet
2013-10-04