20th European Student Colloid Conference

Paula Malo de Molina is a polymer and soft-matter physical chemist specializing in biomimetic macromolecular systems, single-chain nanoparticles, and complex media. Her research focuses on understanding structure and dynamics across length scales using advanced scattering techniques (SAXS, SANS, and light scattering) combined with polymer synthesis and self-assembly. She completed her PhD in Physical Chemistry at TU Berlin and later worked at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is currently a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Centro de Física de Materiales (CSIC–UPV/EHU) in Donostia–San Sebastián.

Carlos L. Bassani holds a dual doctorate in Chemical Engineering from Mines Saint-Etienne, University of Lyon (France), and in Mechanical and Materials Engineering from the Federal University of Technology Paraná (Brazil). He received several honors, including an ERC Starting Grant, a Humboldt Research Fellowship, and the CAPES Thesis Award from the Brazilian Foundation for Science. His research centers on modeling and simulating multiscale interactions in crystal formation from solution, including faceted and porous mesostructures and particle agglomeration and transportability in multiphase flow. Carlos is currently a postdoc at the Institute for Multiscale Simulation at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany).

Reidar Lund obtained his PhD in 2004 at Forschungszentrum Jülich/University of Münster in Germany. After several postdoctoral stays at Forschungszentrum Jülich, the University of the Basque Country, Spain and UC-Berkeley, US, he was appointed as Associate Professor at the University of Oslo, Norway in 2016 and later full Professor in 2022. He was appointed Researcher (Científico distinguido) at the Donostia International Physics Centre, San Sebastian, Spain in 2025. He is also an associate researcher at the Norwegian Centre for Molecular Medicine (NCCM) a branch of the Nordic European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and at the “Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences” - a Centre of Excellence in Norway. He currently leads the Bio3 – Soft Matter group, which focuses on the structure, kinetics, and thermodynamics of self assembled systems, the development of antibiotic nanoparticles and gels, and the mechanisms of antimicrobial peptides and model lipid membranes. The group employs a wide range of experimental techniques and computational tools, with particular expertise in small angle scattering methods using light, neutrons, and X rays.