Prof. Ullrich Steiner is a Professor of Soft Matter Physics at the Adolphe Merkle Institute (AMI) of the University of Fribourg, serves as AMI’s director, and also leads the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research Bio-Inspired Materials. Prof. Ullrich Steiner was educated at the University of Konstanz (Germany) and the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel). He held previous appointments as a postdoctoral fellow at the Weizmann Institute, the Institute Charles Sadron (France), and as a senior scientist at the University of Konstanz. In 1999 he was appointed as Professor (chair) for Polymer Science at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) and in 2004 as the John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Physics of Materials at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge (UK). Prof. Ullrich Steiner is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) and has previously held fellowships at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (FRIAS) and St. Edmunds College Cambridge. He is the recipient of the 2002 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize for Physical Sciences, the 2014 Selby Traveling Fellowship by the Australian Academy of Science, and the 2014 Macro Group UK Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 2016 he was the Peabody visiting Professor at MIT (USA) and currently holds an ERC Advanced Grant.
