Since 22.02.2012 the YIN has four new members: Dr. rer. nat. Matthias Mauder, Dr.-Ing. Katrin Schulz, Dr. rer. nat. Torsten Walther, Jprof. Dr. Gabriela Weitze-Schmithüsen.

Owing to the Start-up funding of YIN Prof. Dr. Katja Schmitz (YIN-Alumna) and Dr. Bastian Rapp were able to generate ligands on technical surfaces with maskless projection lithography. The procedure is very fast and flexible.

The results were recently published in "Small".

Dr. -Ing. Erik Buchmann received the Multidisciplinary Privacy Award of the 5th International Conference on Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP'12) at the European Privacy Day, Brussels (Belgium), January 2012. For the awarded paper: "Tackling Compliance Deficits of Data-Protection Law with User Collaboration"

On 22.02.2012 Dr. Ing. Dipl.-Math.techn. Felix Fritzen was accepted as a member of the YIN. He is group leader of a YIG at the Institute of Engineering Mechanics, KIT Campus South, his research field is computer aided materials research.