Short CV

 
 

 

05/2011-

Associate professor (W2) for Biocompatible Nanomaterials at the Institute for Materials Science at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel (Germany)

07/2010-04/2011

Junior professor for Biocompatible Nanomaterials at the Institute for Materials Science at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel (Germany)

06/2010-

Emmy Noether group leader at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel (Germany)

09/2009-05/2010

Post doc at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel (Germany), Zoological Institute.

05/2007-08/2009

Post doc at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)

12/2006-04/2007

Post doc at Heidelberg University (Germany), Biophysical Chemistry Group,
and Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research, Department "New Materials and Biophysics" (Prof. Joachim Spatz)

2003-2006

PhD (physics) at the Institute for Physical Chemistry, Heidelberg University (Germany), and Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research, Department "New Materials and Biophysics" (Prof. Joachim Spatz)

2002-2003

M. Sc. Studies of Physics at Uppsala University (Sweden)

03/2001-03/2002 Research Assistent at the German Cancer Research Center (Germany)

2000-2002

Studies of Physics at Heidelberg University (Germany)

Awards

2010

Emmy Noether fellowship from the DFG

2008

Otto-Hahn-Medal awarded by the Max-Planck-Society

2007

Fellowship awarded from the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina)

2007 Dieter-Rampacher-Prize of the Max-Planck-Society
2006 Wilma-Moser-Prize of the Faculty of Mathematics and Science, University of Heidelberg
2004-2006 PhD scholarship from the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds

2001-2003

Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

2000-2003

Bavarian Education Program for Highly Gifted Students (BayBFG)

2000

"Jugend forscht" - German "Young Researchers Contest",
2nd prize at the Bavarian finals, section geo- and space-sciences.

1999

"Jugend forscht" - German "Young Researchers Contest",
1st prize at the Bavarian finals, section mathematics and computer sciences.

Key research topics

Micromanipulation with optical tweezers, magnetic tweezers, atomic force microscopy; cell adhesion; cell mechanics, intracellular microrheology; nano- and microstructures.

last change 29.06.2011 by Christine Selhuber-Unkel