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The PULS group and the Capriccio group concluded the year by their semi-annual meeting within the research training group "FRASCAL". After a joint lunch with preparatory, informal discussions, Eva Maria Richter, Lukas Laubert, Felix Weber, and György Hantal presented their research activities and fi...

On November 20, 2025, the 4th Frascal Symposium (research training group "Fracture across Scales") was organised in the beautiful "Orangerie" located in the palace garden in Erlangen. Wuyang Zhao gave a talk entitled "Microscopic mechanisms of plasticity and fracture in glassy polymers" as an invite...

From September 27th to November 8th, Eva Maria Richter completed a six-week research stay with the group of Assistant Professor Frederik van Loock, which is embedded within the Processing and Performance (P&P) of Materials group at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Eindhoven University...

From July 20th to 24th, Lukas Laubert attended the 18th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM18), held in Chicago, USA. This major international conference brought together leading experts in computational mechanics from academia and industry, offering an excellent platform to ex...

The Capriccio group vividly participated with three events at the "Long Night of Sciences" held on 25 October 2025 throughout Nuremberg, Fürth, and Erlangen: First, our group member Eva Maria Richter dicussed with Prof. Daniel Köhn from Geology the question: "What have cracks between continents t...

The Young Investigators Conference 2025 in Pescara, Italy, witnessed a successful minisymposium on "Atomistic, Nano, and Micro Mechanics of Materials" on September 18th. As the brainchild of Dr. Maximilian Ries and Lukas Laubert, the aim was to foster interdisciplinary collaboration at the intersect...

We are very happy to announce that the Capriccio Group takes part in the "Long Night of Sciences 2025" (Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften) which takes place in Nürnberg, Fürth and Erlangen on the 25th of October 2025 from 5 p.m. to midnight! The Capriccio group is involved in three events we would be h...

Jolan Thierry from ENS Rennes visited the Capriccio group for two months as part of a research internship. Jolan explored the capabilities of atomistic simulations of tropocollagen molecules in water as a basis for future studies of collagen fibrils and fibres. Among others, he consulted various pub...

The 18th European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes (EUROMAT) was held by the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) in Granada, Spain from 14 to 18 September 2025. Together with Prof. Hung-Jue Sue (Director of the Polymer Technology Center at Texas A&M Unive...

In August 2025, we held our annual Capriccio Mini Retreat at the Fraunhofer Forschungscampus in Waischenfeld in the Franconian Switzerland. There, we reviewed the group's achievements in the past year, discussed current challenges, and formulated future research paths. During this three day event, w...