Research Interests:
Understanding and Engineering Multicell Systems and Behaviors.
Approaches: Synthetic Biology, Biophysics, Microbiology, Mathematics, Interaction Design
Selected Publications:
- Synthetic adhesin biophysics and living material tuning Matter 2024
- Methane into electricity and value chemicals via microbial fuel cells Renew Sust Energ Rev 2023
- Adhesion logic and universal interface patterning Nature 2022
- Perspective on Human-Biology Interaction Front Comput Sci 2022
- Delay equations for modeling biological network motifs Nature Communications 2021
- Engineering and modeling of multicellularity Current Opinion Genetics Development 2020
- Immersive full-body interaction with living cells Nature Biotechnology 2019
- Scientific discovery games for biomedical research ARBDS 2019
- Polygonal motion and phototaxis in microswimmers Nature Physics 2018
- Synthetic cell-cell adhesion for programming multicell structures Cell 2018
- Biofilm Lithography: Optogenetic cell-surface patterning PNAS 2018
- Lego liquid handling robots PLoS Biology 2017
- Spatiotemporal programming of active particle swarms LabChip 2017
- Realtime interactive biology cloud labs Nature Biotechnology 2016
- Signaling delays and error correction in lateral inhibition patterning Phys Rev Lett 2016
- LudusScope: Playful DIY smartphone microscopy PLoS1 2016
- Design rules for interactive biotechnology DiGRA/FDG 2016
- Biotic game design course PLoS Biology 2015
- Ethics of playing with living matter HCR 2014
- Biotic games: Engineering, design, utility LabChip 2011
- High-resolution 3D recording of neuronal activity JNeurophys 2009
- Synchrony dynamics, noise, and coupling in the segmentation clock Science 2007
- Flagellar beat regulation by molecular motors and boundary conditions HFSP 2007
- Self-organized sperm vortex arrays Science 2005
- Electron transmission through quantum barriers Phys Rev B 2001
CV:
- Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
- Associate Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
- Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
- Postdoc, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- PhD Biophysics, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
- Business Consultant, Accenture, Germany
- Diploma Physics, Technical University Dresden, Germany
- Civil Service, Hohnstein, Germany
- Abitur, Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium, Riesa, Germany