Events

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...

From 23rd of June to the August 1st, Mathis Demeillat visited the Capriccio group within the context of a six-week research intership. Mathis studies "physical engineering and embedded systems" in his master's degree at the École nationale supérieure d’ingénieurs de Caen. During his time with us, Ma...

We are pleased to announce the publication of our manuscript "Approaching and overcoming the limitations of the multiscale Capriccio method for simulating the mechanical behavior of amorphous materials" in the International Journal of Engineering Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijengsci.2025.1...

From July 7th to 11th, the 12th European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC) took place at Lyon, France. Sebastian Pfaller was invited to give a keynote presentation within Minisymposium 1.6 "Mechanics of Polymers" organised by Florian Arbeiter, Jean-Luc Bouvard, and Julie Diani. His talk on "Modellin...

From July 14th to July 17th, Fabrice Detrez visited the Capriccio group for scientific exchange within our collaborative project "BIO ART" and beyond. Fabrice is an assistant professor at the Université Gustave Eiffel with profound background in mechanics, materials science, geophysics, mechanical e...

On Friday, June 27, the Capriccio group participated in the 11th seminar of the research training group GRK2423 "Fracture across Scales" (FRASCAL, https://www.frascal.research.fau.eu/) with three presentations. In her talk entitled "Molecular dynamics simulations of thermoplastics: reaching up to th...