It’s a JV, the Max Planck Queensland Centre for the Materials Science of Extracellular Matrices

This is the first Max Planck Society venture in Australia and will study “study biological materials that are inanimate but which can still sense and adapt to their environment.”

Co-directors are Peter Fratzl (Max Planck Institute) and Dietmar Hutmacher (QUT) and. The centre starts with seven projects over five years.

Centres “are often the next step towards more institutionalised collaboration by establishing early career researchers and partner groups,” Max Planck Gesellschaft states.