The research activities in our group are currently focused on the structure and dynamics of disordered materials including glasses, polymers and biopolymers, as well as water-like liquids and solids. Many of these materials are not only of interest for technological reasons but are also fun to study from the more fundamental standpoint of physics. Particularly for the investigation of dynamical properties we continue our "tradition" of developing new experimental techniques, mainly in the fields of nuclear magnetic resonance and of dielectric spectroscopy, whenever needed.