Award for Heidelberg Chemist

Junior Professor Dr Eva Blasco has been honoured by the German Chemical Society (GDCh) for her innovative research work in the field of functional materials for 3D and 4D printing at the microand nanoscale. She has received a Dr Hermann Schnell Scholarship for outstanding young researchers, worth 3,000 euros. Eva Blasco carries out her research at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and the Institute for Molecular Systems Engineering and Advanced Materials of Heidelberg University. The scholarship of the GDCh was awarded her on 12 September 2022 in the context of the society's conference for Macromolecular Chemistry in Aachen. Prof. Blasco's work is at the interface of organic and macromolecular chemistry and materials sciences. Her projects focus on developing intelligent functional materials for 3D and 4D printing. Taking inspiration from nature, one of her main goals is the incorporation of "life-like" behaviour into synthetic materials by combining stimuli-responsive polymers and 3D printing technologies at the microscale.