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Honors and Awards:
Thomas E. Thompson Award, Biophysical Society (2021)
Otto Hahn-Medal of the Max Planck Society (2001)
In my research I look at various exciting problems in Biological Physics, dealing, among other things, with lipid membranes, proteins, viruses, or DNA. In all cases I am most interested in phenomena that occur on length scales larger than atomic resolution (i.e., I'm not looking at the specific chemistry) but smaller than whole cells. On these scales many fundamental physical concepts have a big impact on biology, among them thermal fluctuations, cooperativity, self-assembly, or elasticity. For instance, due to their surfactant-like nature individual lipid molecules in an aqueous environment spontaneously aggregate into membranes, which span laterally over scales many orders of magnitude larger than their thickness. These quasi-two-dimensional fluid surfaces resist bending, a continuum elastic concept, but since the associated moduli are only about one order of magnitude bigger than thermal energy, membranes can exhibit large thermal undulations that can very substantially affect their behavior.
Thomas E. Thompson Award, Biophysical Society (2021)
Otto Hahn-Medal of the Max Planck Society (2001)
In my research I look at various exciting problems in Biological Physics, dealing, among other things, with lipid membranes, proteins, viruses, or DNA. In all cases I am most interested in phenomena that occur on length scales larger than atomic resolution (i.e., I'm not looking at the specific chemistry) but smaller than whole cells. On these scales many fundamental physical concepts have a big impact on biology, among them thermal fluctuations, cooperativity, self-assembly, or elasticity. For instance, due to their surfactant-like nature individual lipid molecules in an aqueous environment spontaneously aggregate into membranes, which span laterally over scales many orders of magnitude larger than their thickness. These quasi-two-dimensional fluid surfaces resist bending, a continuum elastic concept, but since the associated moduli are only about one order of magnitude bigger than thermal energy, membranes can exhibit large thermal undulations that can very substantially affect their behavior.
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