EDUCATION

Since 2015     

    Founding director of the Center for Functional Protein Assemblies (CPA)

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Since 2008     

   Full Professor, Cellular Biophysics, W3, Department of Physics, Technical University of         Munich, Germany

 

2002 – 2008  

   Assistant Professor, Cellular Biophysics (C3, tenured), Department of Physics, Technical       University of Munich

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2000 – 2002   

   Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard University, USA (Prof. D. Weitz)

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1999   

   Ph.D. in  Physics at the Technical University of Munich, Germany

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1996   

   M.Sc. Université de Montréal, Canada

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FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2019

   ERC Synergy Grant PoInt

2015               

   Visiting Miller Professor Appointment at the University of California, Berkeley, USA

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2014              

   Academy Award 2014 of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

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2012 – 2017  

   ERC Advanced Grant

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2011 – 2012  

   ERC Starting Grant

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SELECTION OF RECENT RESPONSIBILITIES/COMMISSIONS OF TRUST

2012 – 2015     

   Dean of Study, Department of Physics, Technical University of Munich

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Since 2007        

   Deputy Coordinator and Principal Investigator of the Research Area “Programmed Drug     Delivery” in the Excellence Cluster Nanosystems Initiative Munich

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2010 -2016

   Vice-Director and board member if IGSSE (International Graduate School of Science and     Engineering) at TUM

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2005 – 2013

   Founding Director of the International Ph.D. Programm "Materials Science of complex       interfaces" within the framework of Elite Network of Bavaria

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2014 - 2017        

   Editor-in-Chief of the European Physical Journal E

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Since 2012       

   Mentor for German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Max-Weber Program)